Name: Death in Venice
Start: 2016-07-07
End: 2016-07-07
Location: Stadttheater

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Tenor

Alexander Kaimbacher

Gustav von Aschenbach

Baritone

Evgueniy Alexiev

Traveller

Countertenor

Clint van der Linde

Voice of Apollo

Liang-Hua Gong

Hotel porter

Caio Monteiro

Boatman

Soprano

Nienke Otten

Strawberry seller

Krzysztof Gornowicz

Glassmaker

First strolling player

English clerk

Vladimir Lortkipanidze

1. American

Bogdan Sandu

In-Kwon Choi

2. American

Seung-Koo Lim

Conductor

Pawel Poplawski

Stage director

Nadja Loschky

Set designer

Ulrich Leitner

Costume designer

Gabriele Jaenecke

Lighting designer

Ralf Scholz

Choreographer

Thomas Wilhelm

Dramaturge

Larissa Wieczorek

Theater Bielefeld

English

Death in Venice

Bielefeld

Germany

Stadttheater

Death in Venice Britten

German

Approved

The writer Gustav von Aschenbach is in a deep creative crisis. Seduced by a mysterious stranger, he embarks on a journey and meets the graceful boy Tadzio against the beguiling backdrop of a nebulous Venice. Aschenbach was soon torn between an inspiring fascination for life and beauty, desire, obsession, intoxication and the dissolution of boundaries. After all, he doesn't want to admit that death is waiting for him in the sewers...
In his late masterpiece, Britten congenially managed to process the philosophical discourses of Thomas Mann's original. At the same time, his music conjures up the iridescent world of the lagoon city, in which a multifaceted baritone finds just as much space as a divine countertenor. Britten conceived the character of Tadzio as a dancer and thus transported him in a sophisticated way into a sphere that the protagonist could not reach. With sometimes such unusual stylistic devices as Indonesian gamelan music, the impressionistically dazzling opera composition - atmospheric, emotional and of great beauty - reflects both the inner world of the failing artist and the fascinating cosmos of the longed-for Venice.

Death in Venice by Britten, Thu 07 Jul 2016, From (2016/2016), Directed by Nadja Loschky,, Conductor Pawel Poplawski, Stadttheater, Bielefeld, Germany

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