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There would also be incidental music by Strauss, some melodies of which found their Christian Louboutin into the Prologue added to Ariadne aufNaxos when the revised work was presented on its own. But in 1912 there was no Prologue - and thus no travesti Composer - and Ariadne was just one part of an immense performance, a comedy with music containing an opera containing a comedy. Many at Christian Louboutin boots black early performance did not care for it, though the singers included Maria Jeritza as Ariadne, Margarethe Siems as Zerbinetta and Hermann Jadlowker as Bacchus. Strauss himself had reservations, but he was captivated by Zerbinetta, seeing her as a mixture of the prototypical nineteenthcentury coloratura diva with the insouciant soubrette of the music hall. While Hofmannsthal built up a contrast between Ariadne's dedication and wisdom and Zerbinetta's fickleness and superficiality, Strauss put himself to the Christian Louboutin Supra Fifre Over The Knees Boots sliver of bringing the superficial singer/dancer to rival the heroine for range of feeling. With its new Prologue, the work started its second career as a full-fledged opera. Frank Schalk led the premiere, on October 4, 1916, at the Vienna Hofoper. Jeritza appeared as Ariadne, also playing the Prima Donna in the Prologue; Selma Kurz was Zerbinetta; and the young Composer was Lotte Lehmann. In the U.S., Ariadne auf Naxos was first performed by the Philadelphia Civic Opera in 1928 under Christian Louboutin balck boots classic Smallens. The Met did not turn to the work until December 29, 1962, with Leonie Rysanek, Gianna d'Angelo, Kerstin Meyer, Jess Thomas and Theodor Uppman, conducted by Karl Böhm.