Opera

Death in Venice

Benjamin Britten

04 Dec, 14 - 23 Dec, 14

Musical conductor: Alejo Pérez

Stage Director: Willy Decker

Since classical antiquity, with Plato’s Phaedrus at the apex, artists and intellectuals have pursued the canon of ideal beauty. In the nineteenth century, Thomas Mann gave expression to his preoccupations in this regard in the Death in Venice. Immersed in a deep creative void, the writer Gustav Aschenbach struggled between Apollonian forces and Dionysian passion. The catalyst will be the teenager Tadzio, who he meets on his last trip to a decadent Venice ravaged by a cholera epidemic, foreshadowing the collapse of a world that will never return (the book was published in 1912). In his last opera, with a musical universe of colours and textures, Benjamin Britten, the great heir to Purcell, portrays the protagonist’s existential and aesthetic crisis over 17 scenes in which a tortured inner monologue unfolds. The stylised staging by Willy Decker, who describes the piece as “fascinating, full of ambiguity and misunderstandings”, underlines the intellectual and erotic tension that consumes the protagonist, highlighting his most dreamy side.

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Subtitles in

Spanish, English

Opera in two acts and 17 scenes
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on Thomas Mann´s novella Der Tod in Venedig (1912)

New production in Teatro Real
Production of Teatro Real, in coproduction with Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona

Teatro Real Chorus and Orchestra
(Coro Intemezzo / Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid)

The perfomance of December 17th is sponsored by:

Artistic information

Artistic team

Musical conductor Alejo Pérez

Stage Director Willy Decker

Escenografía Wolfgang Gussmann

Iluminación Hans Toelstede

Coreografía Athol Farmer

Chorus Conductor Andrés Máspero

Figurines Wolfgang Gussmann, Susana Mendoza

Cast

Gustav von Aschenbach John Daszak

The Traveller Leigh Melrose

The voice of Apolo Anthony Roth Costanzo

Waiter Duncan Rock

Cadging Itxaro Mentxaka

Concierge Vicente Ombuena

Crystal merchant Antonio Lozano

Other characters Legipsy Álvarez

Other characters Esther Gonzalez

Other characters José Carlo Marino

Other characters Oxana Arabadzhieva

Other characters Álvaro Vallejo

Other characters Enrique Lacárcel

Other characters José Alberto García

Other characters Miriam Montero

Other characters Alexander González

Other characters Rubén Belmonte

Other characters Elier Muñoz

Other characters Sebastián Covarrubias

Other characters Debora Abramowicz

Other characters Vasco Fracanzani

Other characters Paula Iragorri

Other characters Igor Tsenkman

Other characters Ohiane González de Viñaspre

Other characters Ivaylo Ognianov

Other characters Adela López

Other characters Carlos Carzoglio

Waiter Damián del Castillo

Strawberry seller. Newspaper seller Ruth Iniesta

Vendedora de encaje Nuria García Arrés

Tadzio Tomasz Borczyk / Alejandro Pau

Releases

Patron friends

30 August

2014

Subscribers friend

04 September

2014

Tickets on sale

09 September

2014

Performances

Date/hour
Space
Cast
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04 December 2014

21:00

Main Auditorium

John Daszak, Leigh Melrose, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Duncan Rock, Itxaro Mentxaka, Vicente Ombuena, Antonio Lozano, Antonio Lozano, Legipsy Álvarez, Esther Gonzalez, José Carlo Marino, Oxana Arabadzhieva, Álvaro Vallejo, Enrique Lacárcel, José Alberto García, Miriam Montero, Alexander González, Rubén Belmonte, Elier Muñoz, Sebastián Covarrubias, Debora Abramowicz, Vasco Fracanzani, Paula Iragorri, Igor Tsenkman, Ohiane González de Viñaspre, Ivaylo Ognianov, Adela López, Carlos Carzoglio, Damián del Castillo, Ruth Iniesta, Nuria García Arrés, Tomasz Borczyk / Alejandro Pau

Subscription tickets E

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07 December 2014

19:00

Main Auditorium

Subscription tickets C

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19 December 2014

21:00

Main Auditorium

Subscription tickets D

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