Ariadne's aria "Es gibt ein Reich" from R. Strauss' "Ariadne auf Naxos".
Jessye Norman, soprano.
James Levine, conducting Metropolitan Opera.
Synopsis : In full despair from being left by her love Theseus, Ariadne describes the land of death to which she will go to escape her pains. She welcomes death, thinking that in the land of death she will find everything that she has been denied in life.
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