Opera News a publication of the Metropolitan Opera Guild – October 2010
Ariadne auf Naxos / Judith Malaronte
For the third and final performance (Aug. 4) of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos presented by the Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Fellows and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, rising young Japanese conductor Keitaro Harada, a student in the TMC program, got his turn to lead the forces prepared by Christoph von Dohnányi. Harada’s command of the score was total, from the uncommonly beautiful legato and sweep of the opening orchestral phrases, hinting at the inspired, ecstatic melodies created by the character known as the Composer, to the carefully controlled climaxes of the final duet, in which Ariadne and Bacchus join in uncomprehending ecstasy.

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