Ariadne auf Naxos

...Opera Holland Park

...A co-production with Scottish Opera.

...'The party to end all parties is about to begin. Two contrasting entertainments have been scheduled: a tragic opera by a young composer with high ideals, and a burlesque comedy. Now dinner has overrun, the diva is in a temper, the fireworks are about to begin, and, to everybody’s horror, both groups must perform at the same time.'

...'OPERA Holland Park’s final offering of the season is also its first Richard Strauss. Ariadne auf Naxos is an opera within an opera and director / designer Antony McDonald has achieved a clever amalgam of the two parts in a stylish and wickedly funny staging that ends fittingly in a fireworks display.'
Clare Colvin, Express