Ariadne auf Naxos: Hong Kong Arts Festival opener is an opera within an opera that treats the ears better than the eyes

Ariadne auf Naxos, which opens this year’s Hong Kong Arts Festival, pits highbrow opera against lowbrow commedia dell’arte, with powerful vocal performances and a strangely monochromatic design.

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