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Death in Venice review - Misfortune and distractions mar WNO production in Birmingham
20 May 2024 17:07 GMT
Clive Peacock reviews Death in Venice, by Benjamin Britten, presented by Welsh National Opera … Opera. In Death in Venice she interprets the wishes of Benjamin Britten and his … infatuation of the young Tadzio. Britten’s music is movingly understated …
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The week in classical: Death in Venice; Giant; Angela Hewitt review – five-star Britten and more
16 Mar 2024 14:57 GMT
… tinges every bar of Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice (1973), in which an … heart condition was beyond treatment – Death in Venice blazes, troubles, beguiles. At times … a central musical motif in Death in Venice. In a higher, more urgent …
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Death in Venice review – Britten’s final opera soars in WNO’s captivating staging
08 Mar 2024 13:58 GMT
… with NoFitState circus in Benjamin Britten’s final opera has created … seen as the longueurs of Britten’s score. The sequences of … ’s performers in rehearsals for Death in Venice with Mark Le Brocq as … as it is – has denied Britten’s wonderful music its primacy …
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Menace, muscular acrobats and golden voices in Death in Venice
08 Mar 2024 16:49 GMT
Britten’s last opera is autobiography piled on autobiography. Its origins lie in Thomas Mann’s famous 1912 novella, and the author certainly identified with his central figure: the writer Aschenbach, who prides himself on his rationality yet fatally …
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Review: Welsh National Opera's 'Death in Venice with No Fit State Circus
08 Mar 2024 16:27 GMT
It is highly laudable for WNO to share the Wales Millennium State with No Fit State circus.
It probably gave a new audience for the talent and gave director Olivia Fuchs the medium for a different take on Britten’s dark and frankly dodgy opera.
However, …
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‘We’re all agog’: Behind the scenes at Welsh National Opera’s Death in Venice – in pictures
07 Mar 2024 09:44 GMT
Britten’s atmospheric, strange and beautiful opera, the last he wrote, comes to life in this new production from Welsh National Opera in a collaboration with No Fit State CircusDeath in Venice is Benjamin Britten’s final opera, written when he was ill with …
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A John Piper jewel at Benjamin Britten's home, The Red House
07 May 2024 10:49 GMT
… himself.
The connection between Britten and Pears and the … the year in which Britten finished Death in Venice, which was to be … . His work became, like Britten's, recognisably modern … the collaborative creative circle around Britten, a collaboration that is …
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Culture highlights 2024: A post-apocalyptic Wales and An Enemy of the People
04 Jan 2025 17:11 GMT
… from its première, Benjamin Britten’s last opera, Death in Venice, received its first …
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From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025
04 Jan 2025 13:23 GMT
… role for WNO in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes (5 April … ’s recent triumph with Britten’s final opera, Death in Venice, this promises to …
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Death In Venice review: It's remarkable how good it is
30 Nov 2019 22:01 GMT
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Death In Venice
Royal Opera House, London … Britten’s setting of Thomas Mann’s novella Death In Venice, … was working on Death In Venice, Benjamin Britten was advised not …