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The Canadian Opera Company’s spring 2010/2011 season continues with one of Richard Strauss’s most brilliant operas, Ariadne auf Naxos.  The legendary Sir Andrew Davis conducts the COC Orchestra in this masterful madcap melodrama, performed by a sublime cast led by Canadian stars, soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and tenor Richard Margison and staged by award-winning Australian director Neil Armfield.  Ariadne auf Naxos runs for eight performances at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on April 30, May 3, 12, 15, 18, 21, 27 and 29, 2011, and is sung in German with English SURTITLES™.

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About the Production

About the Cast and Creative Team

• Adrianne Pieczonka as Ariadne: Seen and Heard International calls her "one of the most important artists working today," noting that "her Ariadne was simply superb . . . a truly wonderful performance from a great artist in her prime." 
• Richard Margison as Bacchus, a role he has sung "with impressive confidence" (The New York Times) at the Metropolitan Opera
• Jane Archibald as the coloratura Zerbinetta, a role which has earned her ecstatic reviews across Europe. Paris Update calls her "one of the great Zerbinettas."
• Of Alice Coote (singing the role of The Composer), The Telegraph says that she "charges music with an edge, fire and intensity that no other British singer can currently rival."

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Download (centre) Brian Galliford as the Dancing Master in the Welsh National Opera’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos, 2004. Photo: Clive Barda		Download (l–r) D'arcy Bleiker as Harlequin and Katarzyna Dondalska as Zerbinetta) in the Welsh National Opera’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos, 2004. Photo: Clive Barda
Download A scene from the Welsh National Opera’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos, 2004. Photo: Clive Barda		Download Janice Watson as Ariadne in the Welsh National Opera’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos, 2004. Photo: Clive Barda
Download (l–r) Peter Hoare as Bacchus and Janice Watson as Ariadne in the Welsh National Opera’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos, 2004. Photo: Clive Barda		Download (l–r) Peter Hoare as Bacchus and Janice Watson as Ariadne in the Welsh National Opera’s production of Ariadne auf Naxos, 2004. Photo: Clive Barda

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