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Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60 / Opera : R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60 / Opera: "Schläft sie?"
About This Song
About "Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60 / Opera : R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos, Op. 60 / Opera: "Schläft sie?"" by Barbara Bonney
Bonney inhabits Strauss's Ariadne with devastating clarity, her soprano a thread of gold in a labyrinth of orchestral shadow. The question 'Schläft sie?' hangs suspended—sleep as both refuge and abandonment. The tension between mythic grandeur and intimate vulnerability is rendered almost unbearably human.