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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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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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The outlook is gloomy for opera in Wales
29 Mar 2024 18:20 GMT
… innovative new production of Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice (The Guardian view on …
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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 …
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The Guardian view on opera and circus: a populist pairing that scales the heights
22 Mar 2024 18:52 GMT
… is touring Benjamin Britten’s more challenging Death in Venice, about the fixation … resonance to its meditations.
Britten gave no voice to … makes their fusion in Death in Venice more than a mere … of £13 tickets for Death in Venice in Oxford and Bristol this …
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Benjamin Britten’s ‘Peter Grimes’ Arrives in Paris
24 Jan 2023 10:12 GMT
… Channel in France, where Britten has intrigued many operagoers.
… and has staged other Britten operas, including “Death in Venice” and “Turn of … one at that.
“With Britten the dramatic mastery and … and accusatory tones that Britten wrote for the townspeople …