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Scottish conductor who became embroiled in hunt for the Stone of Destiny dies
10 May 2025 08:17 GMT
… such lesser-known operas as Death in Venice, Kátya Kabanova and Wozzeck.
Lockhart … in the title role of Britten’s Billy Budd. Other outstanding …
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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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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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Worthing date for British premiere of Saint-Saëns' The Silver Bell
02 May 2025 08:28 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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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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Welsh National Opera return to the Milton Keynes Theatre stage this May
22 Apr 2025 19:18 GMT
… Opera’s new production of Britten’s Death in Venice, this Spring Season features … another new production, Britten’sPeter Grimes.
The … an exquisitely sensitive appreciation of Britten’s vision, the always brilliant …