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Death in VeniceNew production

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Wales Millennium Centre: Donald Gordon TheatreBute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 5AL, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Performers
Welsh National Opera
Leo HussainConductor
Olivia FuchsDirector
Nicola TurnerSet Designer, Costume Designer
Robbie ButlerLighting Designer
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Chorus of Welsh National Opera
Sam SharplesVideo
Riccardo SaggeseCircus artistJaschiu
Firenza GuidiCircus director
Mark Le BrocqTenorGustav von Aschenbach
Roderick WilliamsBaritoneTraveller/ Elderly fop/ Old gondolier/ Hotel manager/ Hotel barber/ Leader of the players/ Voice of Dionysus
Alexander ChanceCountertenorVoice of Apollo
Carolyn JacksonSopranoDanish Lady
Meriel AndrewSopranoEnglish Lady, Lace seller
Angharad MorganSopranoNewspaper seller
Fiona Harrison-WolfeSopranoRussian mother
Helen GreenawayMezzo-sopranoNurse-governess
Emily Christina LoftusSopranoStrawberry seller
Stella WoodmanMezzo-sopranoGerman mother
Claire HamptonSopranoStrolling player
Alun Rhys-JenkinsTenorGlassmaker
Peter Van HulleTenorHotel porter
Rhodri Prys-JonesTenorStrolling player
Stephen WellsBassA guide
Gareth Brynmor JohnBaritoneEnglish clerk
Martin LloydBassHotel waiter
Alastair MooreBaritoneRussian father
Antony CésarDancerTadzio

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 times.

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