Britten's final opera adapts Thomas Mann's novella, evoking a diseased Venice. Robert Tear sings Aschenbach, whose obsessive pursuit of a boy leads to humiliation and death, in a Glyndebourne production directed by Stephen Lawless.
- Directors
- Robin Lough
- Cast
- Robert Tear, Michael Chance, Alan Opie, Graeme Jenkins, Natalie Casey, Gerald Finley, Paul Zeplichal
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Genre
- Music, TV Movie
- Release date
- 1990-01-01
- Studios
- Glyndebourne Festival Opera, BBC, RM Arts
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Benjamin Britten's last opera hauntingly captures the grandeur and shabbiness of a Venice gripped by disease. It traces the moral and physical decline of writer Aschenbach, whose fixation on a boy's beauty brings humiliation and death. Robert Tear takes the demanding title role opposite Alan Opie as the various baritone parts. Britten turned the Polish family and Tadzio into dancers, choreographed here by Martha Clarke. This Glyndebourne production is directed by Stephen Lawless and conducted by Graeme Jenkins.
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