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Ariadne

In Greek mythology, the daughter of Minos, King of Crete. When Theseus came from Athens as one of the sacrificial victims offered to the Minotaur, she fell in love with him and gave him a ball of thread, which enabled him to find his way out of the labyrinth. When Theseus abandoned her on the island of Naxos, she married Dionysus.

Ariadne

Opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinů (libretto by composer after G Neveux), first produced in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, on 2 March 1961.



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Ariadne's thread, the woman says, runs you out of the labyrinth.
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