Ariadne auf Naxos review – Laurent Pelly’s staging has plenty of wit but lacks weight

Glyndebourne, East Sussex The director hits perfectly all the comic marks of Strauss’s opera about an opera, but there’s few insights in a work that should be moving as well as frothy and fun. Glyndebourne’s new productions this summer have followed a theme: first Tosca , about a fictional opera singer; then L’Orfeo , about the mythical musician. Now comes Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos – an opera about an opera. It starts with the shenanigans backstage as two troupes – one high art, one low – prepare after-dinner entertainment for their rich patron, then the performance that ensues when

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