Name: Death in Venice
Start: 2024-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Wales Millennium Centre

Organization

Conductor

Leo Hussain

Stage director

Olivia Fuchs

Singer

Countertenor

Alexander Chance

Voice of Apollo

Baritone

Roderick Williams

Traveller

Tenor

Mark Le Brocq

Gustav von Aschenbach

Set designer

Nicola Turner

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Robbie Butler

Soprano

Emily Christina Loftus

Strawberry seller

Welsh National Opera

Others

WNO Chorus

Orchestra

Welsh National Opera Orchestra

Wales Millennium Centre

The Mayflower

Edmund Whitehead

Video designer

Sam Sharples

Peter Van Hulle

Elderly Fop

Hotel Manager

Hotel Barber

Leader of the players

Voice of Dionysus

Carolyn Jackson

Danish Lady

Claire Hampton

French Girl

Sarah Pope

French Mother

Mezzo-soprano

Stella Woodman

German mother

First strolling player

Beca Davies

Beggar woman

Hotel porter

Simon Crosby Buttle

American 2

Hotel Guest

Gondolier 1

Alun Rhys-Jenkins

Glassmaker

Martin Lloyd

Hotel waiter

Priest in St Mark's

Ship's Steward

Alastair Moore

Boatman

Bass

Russian father

Restaurant waiter

Jasey Hall

Polish Father

Gondolier 2

Gareth Brynmor John

English clerk

Helen Jarmany

Sian Meinir

Actor

Silent

Antony César

Tadzio

Helen Greenaway

Russian Nanny

Julian Boyce

German Father

Meriel Andrew

Lace seller

English Lady

Fiona Harrison-Wolfe

Russian mother

Angharad Morgan

Newspaper seller

Diana Salles

The Polish mother

Vilhelmiina Sinervo

Daughter I

Selma Hellmann

Daughter II

Riccardo Saggese

Jaschiu

Timothy Morgan

Rhodri Prys Jones

American 1

Ingliż

Death in Venice

Birmingham

United Kingdom

Hippodrome

Plymouth

Theatre Royal

Bristol

Oxford

New Theatre Oxford

Southampton

Llandudno

Venue Cymru

Cardiff

Death in Venice Britten

Public

Welx

Approved

A writer wrestles with his soul, desperate to suppress his hidden desires...Step into the haunting world of Aschenbach’s troubled thoughts in Britten’s magnu...

In the search for beauty and meaning, the renowned author Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice on a whim. In the sultry atmosphere of a cholera epidemic, with the scirocco blowing, he falls in love with Tadzio, a youthful aristocrat who is staying in the same hotel with his family. As Aschenbach projects his loneliness and desire on him, fantasy and imagination intermingle with existence. His obsession progresses to a fever pitch as he becomes increasingly divorced from reality. 

Inspired by the original Thomas Mann novella, Britten’s magnificently atmospheric opera comes to life in this new production from WNO, creating images of ravishing beauty, as well as exploring the grotesque hidden beneath the search for the sublime. As poetic worlds of the imagination collide with reality, the early 20th century acts as a mirror to our

English

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Kast

Ekwipaġġ

Ensemble