Ep. 97 OFE Meets Maestro Joseph Rescigno, ft Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss
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The Aesthetics of the Opera
The ariagnic starts out as this moliere play, translated into german. It's 19 12 in its first incarnation, rectdbut then it's the 19 16 version which premiers in vienna. The delbinetes aria is one of the great show stoppers in the o ature. And rossim cavalier, when i did it, i did it with the 84 players. Well, it's a big orchestra. Electris huge is a hundred and 15. So that's how the size of the orchestra came to be.
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