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Peter Grimes – WNO’s production of Britten’s masterwork seethes like a wild and cruel sea
06 Apr 2025 14:57 GMT
… the success of the stunning Death in Venice with their new Peter … , this compelling performance of Britten’s masterwork, premiered in 1945 … s 1810 narrative poem, Britten had already softened the unruly … National Opera’s staging of Britten's Peter Grimes. …
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New Sussex Opera offer British premiere of Saint-Saëns' The Silver Bell
17 Apr 2025 10:56 GMT
… a singer: Tadzio in Britten's Death in Venice is one which occurs …
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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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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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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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Heart-wrenching, joy-inducing and irrepressibly thrilling: our classical critics’ highlights of the year
18 Dec 2024 15:09 GMT
… unforgettable’
Ian Bostridge in Britten’s Curlew River at the … Aldeburgh festival. Photograph: Britten Pears ArtsNo Fit State is … their spectacular production of Britten’s Death in Venice. Ironic then that WNO … of the Madwoman in Britten’s Curlew River at …
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The novels capturing the UK's gay social elite
24 Oct 2024 10:26 GMT
… Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice. As one might exclaim reading … Crozier and music by Benjamin Britten. It is based on the …
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NoFit State Circus announces three Bristol productions this spring
17 Apr 2024 16:01 GMT
… with new shows Bamboo and Death in Venice.
Long-running circus collective NoFit … a one-off performance of Death in Venice, in partnership with the Welsh … to the performance of Benjamin Britten’s final opera.
Take a …
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Think flute-playing Sir Keir will rescue opera? Look at Labour-run Wales
28 Mar 2024 02:24 GMT
… new production of Benajmin Britten’s final opera, Death in Venice. It’s directed … . In every other regard, this Death in Venice is strange, beautiful and troubling … , playing with needlepoint finesse as Britten dissects Aschenbach’s disintegrating personality …