BRITTEN, B.: Death in Venice [Opera] (Teatro Real, 2014)

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BRITTEN, B.: Death in Venice [Opera] (Teatro Real, 2014)

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Death in Venice, Op. 88

Composer: Britten, Benjamin

Libretto/Text Author: Piper, Myfanwy

Conductor: Perez, Alejo

Orchestra: Madrid Teatro Real Orchestra

Chorus: Madrid Teatro Real Chorus

Chorus Master: Maspero, Andres

Elderly Fop/Hotel Barber and Manager/Leader of the Players/Old Gondolier/Traveller/Voice of Dionysus: Melrose, Leigh

English Clerk/Venice Guide: Rock, Duncan

Gustav van Aschenbach: Daszak, John

Tadzio: Borczyk, Tomasz

Voice of Apollo: Costanzo, Anthony Roth

Set/Stage Designer: Gussmann, Wolfgang

Costume Designer: Gussmann, Wolfgang

Costume Designer: Mendoza, Susana

Lighting Designer: Toelstede, Hans

Choreographer: Farmer, Athol

Stage Director: Decker, Willy

Television Director: Roussillon, Francois

Date of Production: 10-2018

Venue: Teatro Real, Madrid

Playing Time: 02:35:47

Catalogue Number: 2.110577

UPC: 747313557752

Synopsis

Death in Venice, Op. 88

Adopted from Thomas Mann's 1923 novella, Death in Venice was Benjamin Britten's last opera, the composer insisting on its competition while delaying badly needed heart surgery. The starkly simple narrative of a famous but failing novelist travelling to Venice to seek inspiration only to find unhealthy infatuation and deadly cholera, is given a chamber-like precision and clarity through Britten's score, becoming a haunting drama filled with musical symbols, disquieting mystery and richly evocative atmospheres of Venice and its strange characters.