In 2016, The Guardian observed that the idea of Katie Mitchell producing a successful comedy was “as unthinkable as her directing a Broadway show.” Unexpectedly (and for some arguably), the unthinkable has happened in the British director’s Ariadne auf Naxos for Gran Teatre del Liceu (seen Oct. 4th).
More cabaret than Broadway, Mitchell’s adaptation is a revelation. A piquant and satirical interpretation of Richard Strauss’s concoction, it perfectly represents the theatre, with all its vanities, its anguish and its historical acceptance of
