Martina Franca reopens with Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 24 July 2020

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“Luisi distilled every single emotion from the score”

Reviewed at Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca on 21 July 2020

Strauss R., Ariadne auf Naxos (New arrangement in Italian by Quirino Principe)

Fabio Luisi, Conductor

Walter Pagliaro, Director

Gianni Carluccio, Set Designer

Giuseppe Palella, Costume Designer

Carmela Remigio, The Primadonna (Ariadne)

Jessica Pratt, Zerbinetta

Piero Pretti, The Tenor (Bacchus)

Mariam Battistelli, Echo

Barbara Massaro, Naiad

Ana Victória Pitts, Dryad

Manuel Amati, Brighella

Eugenio Di Lieto, Truffaldino

Vasyl Solodkyy, Scaramuccio

Vittorio Prato, Harlequin

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.