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Death in Venice

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Death in Venice

Britten's Death in Venice from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Death in Venice from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Kate Molleson presents and is joined in the box by Dr Lucy Walker to discuss Britten's late great opera.

Britten's final opera in a new production from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Based on a novella by Thomas Mann. The German writer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice in search of creative inspiration, but his thoughts are distracted by a beautiful Polish youth, with whom he becomes obsessed. Mark Padmore sings the troubled writer, and Gerald Finley the seven characters who appear throughout the opera to lead him to his eventual demise. Kate Molleson presents and is joined in the box by Dr Lucy Walker from the Britten-Pears Foundation to discuss Britten's late great opera.

Britten: Death in Venice
Gustav von Ashenbach ..... Mark Padmore (tenor)
Traveller/Old Gondolier/Hotel Manager/Elderly Fop/Hotel Barber/Leader of Players/Voice of Dionysus ..... Gerald Finley (bass-baritone)
Voice of Apollo ..... Randall Scotting (countertenor)
Strawberry Seller ..... Rebecca Evans (soprano)
Lace Seller ..... Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha (soprano)
Danish Lady ..... Elizabeth Weisberg (soprano)
English Lady ..... Katy Batho (soprano)
Russian Nanny ..... Rosie Aldridge (mezzo-soprano)
German Mother ..... Hanna Hipp (mezzo-soprano)
Russian Spinster ..... Amanda Baldwin (mezzo-soprano)_
French Mother ..... Rebecca Lodge Birkebaek (mezzo-soprano)
Hotel Porter ..... Colin Judson (tenor)
Boy Player ..... Andrew Tortise (tenor)
Glass Maker ..... Sam Furness (tenor)
Steward ..... Andrew O'Connor (tenor)
English Clerk ..... Dominic Sedgwick (baritone)
German Father ..... Michael Mofidian (bass-baritone)
Lido Boatman ..... ByeonMin Gil (bass-baritone)
Russian Father ..... Dominic Barrand (bass-baritone)
Chorus and Orchestra of Royal Opera House
Richard Farnes (conductor)

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