Opera and Choral Scores

Ariadne Auf Naxos in Full Score (Dover Music Scores) Opera and Choral Scores Reprint edition

One of the composer's most highly regarded operas, with a libretto by Hugo von Hoffmansthal that artfully intermingles backstage comedy, the lofty emotions of Greek mythology and the merry pranks of a troupe of commedia dell?arte players. Strauss endowed these antic proceedings with a luminous score that combines music of great satiric wit with breathtaking flights of lyricism. Reprinted from the definitive full-score edition published by Adolph Furstner following the opera?s 1916 premiere at the Vienna State Opera.