Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Death in Venice, Welsh National Opera - Johan Persson Nearly half a century after his death, the composer Benjamin Britten holds a ...

With most of us confined to our homes, music - whatever our tastes - becomes a welcome distraction, a soothing for our anxieties or an evocation of happier times. I've found myself listening to ...

According to a note in the Glimmerglass Festival’s program for this summer’s new production of Death in Venice, Benjamin Britten’s last opera ends in a question mark. I beg to differ. Few final ...

Presenting “ambiguous Venice” as the “half fairy tale, half snare” described by Thomas Mann, and with musical direction by the conductor who not only worked on the piece with the composer but gave its ...

Benjamin Britten’s valedictory opera, written three years before his death in 1976, is perhaps his most personal work for the theater. Adapted from Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella, it’s the tale of an ...

Dave Cunningham is not as impressed by Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice as his take on the Bard’s Midsummer. Opera North’s Festival of Britten concludes, appropriately, with Benjamin Britten’s last ...

The great operas have made enduring lyric theater of all sorts of stories: tragedies, comedies, romances, heroic adventures. Onetype of story, however, remains relatively rare in operatic form: the ...

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