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BBC Philharmonic
The Endless Parade season of postwar British masterpieces tonight features
Britten's operatic swansong Death in Venice, from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Based on Thomas
Mann's novella, its central character, himself a novelist, leaves Munich for Venice in search of inspiration, which he finds in the form of a young boy, on whom he gazes from a distance. Michael Chance (countertenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone), BBC Singers,
BBC Philharmonic, conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier
Parti
8.50 Thomas Mann
Philip Hensher explores Mann's status in Europe today. Does anyone willingly read his great tomes of high culture in the era of MTV, German reunification and the euro?
9.10 Part 2

Contributors

Tenor:
Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Baritone:
Alan Opie
Unknown:
Thomas Mann
Unknown:
Philip Hensher
Source: Radio Times

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