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Edinburgh International Festival closes in style with a terrific Ariadne auf Naxos

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“on a perfect summer evening with just a whisper of a breeze, it was as if magic was in the air”
Reviewed at Edinburgh Academy Junior School, Edinburgh on 25 August 2021
Strauss R., Ariadne auf Naxos (Concert performance)
Lothar Koenigs, Conductor
Louisa Muller, Director
Dorothea Röschmann, The Primadonna (Ariadne)
Brenda Rae, Zerbinetta
Catriona Morison, Composer
David Butt Philip, The Tenor (Bacchus)
Soraya Mafi, Echo
Claire Barnett-Jones, Dryad
Serena Sáenz, Naiad
Joshua Hopkins, Harlequin
Alexander Sprague, Scaramuccio
Barnaby Rea, Truffaldino
Sunnyboy Dladla, Brighella
Jonathan McGovern, Wigmaker
Peter Bronder, Dancing Master
Martin Gantner, Music Master
Thomas Quasthoff, The Major-Domo
Filipe Manu, Officer
Ossian Huskinson, Lackey
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