sentences:  Ariane (Martinů)
  
  Ariane is a one-act opera by Bohuslav Martinů to a French libretto by the composer drawn from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th acts of the 1943 play by Georges Neveux, "Le Voyage de Thésée", (who had supplied the text to the composer's earlier opera "Julietta").Martinů composed "Ariane" in 1958 whilst working on his final opera, "The Greek Passion" – he described it in a letter to his family as 'taking a rest' from the larger work.