Watch Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos - Vladimir Jurowski, Katharina Thoma - Glyndebourne
- 2 hr 1 min
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".