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- Title
HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL'S ARIADNE AUF NAXOS: AN ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF THE Vorspiel.
- Authors
Daviau, Donald G.
- Abstract
The article examines the opera Ariadne Auf Naxos, by Austrian novelist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. In the original version of Ariadne a short prose scene served as a transition between the two-act adaptation of Molière's comedy Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and the opera. When Hofmannsthal decided to abandon the play to make the opera an independent work, he retained the Vorspiel as an introductory act to provide the exposition necessary for understanding the opera and also to make the work long enough for an entire evening m the opera house. While the Vorspiel thus shows a number of alterations in content, the manner of presentation was subjected to an even more radical change. Originally designed as a prose scene in order to insure that the audience would understand the words.
- Subjects
HOFMANNSTHAL, Hugo von, 1874-1929; AUSTRIAN novelists; OPERA; DRAMATIC music; DRAMA; OPERA performances; MUSICAL interpretation; AUSTRALIAN authors; COMEDY
- Publication
Modern Austrian Literature, 1973, Vol 6, Issue 1/2, p41
- ISSN
0026-7503
- Publication type
Literary Criticism