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Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos) is an opera by Richard Strauss with German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Hoftheater, Stuttgart, on October 25, 1912. The revised version was first performed at the Hofoper, Vienna, on October 4, 1916. It is mainly a reworking of the Greek myth of Ariadne and Bacchus.