Twilight of the Gods, the Ring Cycle's conclusion, takes us to the children who have been left in the shadow of a power struggle between gods.
The Twilight of the Gods
Staatskapelle Weimar
opera
glyndebourne
Ariadne auf Naxos
opera122 min2013PG
Glyndebourne’s wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable entertainment in which low comedy and high tragedy compete for our attention, ‘borne aloft by Strauss’s divine music and Hofmannsthal’s visionary poetry’. At the centre of this production from Katharina Thoma is the noble, tragic figure of the abandoned Ariadne herself, in a haunting performance from Soile Isokoski, ‘with brilliant support from the pit’ (The Independent).