Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): "Death in Venice" (1973)

Opera in due atti su libretto di Myfanwy Piper, da Thomas Mann. Prima rappresentazione: Snape, Festival di Aldeburgh, Inghilterra, il 16 giugno 1973.
Produzione Festival di Glyndebourne 1990
Con: Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance, Gerald Finley, Christopher Ventris, Paul Zeplichal...
London Sinfoniettadir.Graeme Jenkins
regia di Stephen Lowless
reg.1990

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Young Gerald Finley is terrific.

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This is really good.

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Britten said that Death in Venice was either his best score or his worst. You can hear what he means: this opera goes further than, and is quite unlike, anything else he wrote.

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The man in the lighter brown coat with the fur-like trim looks like Truman Capote.

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10 rocznica śmierci Roberta Teara

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Really! Wow. I didn’t even know he had died.

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Best sung but too fast

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I still prefer the 1971 original by Visconti, starring our beloved Bjorn Andersen as Tadzio

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Tear is brilliant. The score is brilliant. The premise is a mess.

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I have a love hate relationship with the story. When I was an adolescent in love with the school genius it helped me realize that I was not alone in all the agonizing pain/bliss it engendered, I felt everything Aschenbach felt. I still felt enormous guilt tied in with the whole scenario. I even referenced this work to said genius to try and explain what was going on. Of course he eventually ripped my heart out and burnt it in front of me. He later went on to conduct this opera and apologize to me before he died. The pain still lingers,
Now as somebody in his 50's I find Aschenbach losing his rag over a (in the book) 12 year old boy absurd and the watching children on the beach creepy. But my former adolescent self still tears up inside over it.