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Death in Venice / Benjamin Britten.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, composer, composer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
- Live sound recordings.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Operas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (2 hr., 15 min., 57 sec.))
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1974]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- audio file streaming audio file
- Summary:
- Thomas Mann's celebrated tale of unrequited love and death is given a new perspective in Benjamin Britten's final opera, first performed just a year and a half before this Met broadcast. The composer's long-time companion, tenor Peter Pears, reprises his world-premiere portrayal of Gustav von Aschenbach, the elderly and solitary novelist at the center of the story, who tragically falls in love with the beautiful youth Tadzio (played by a dancer). Pears is joined by two other veterans of the opera's world premiere--John Shirley-Quirk, who plays the seven characters that propel Aschenbach to his destiny, and conductor Steuart Bedford.
- Contents:
- My mind beats on
- Who's that?
- Hey there, hey there, you!
- Overture: Venice
- Ah Serenissima!
- We are delighted to greet the Signore
- So I am led to Venice once again
- The Lido is so charming, is it not?
- The wind is from the West
- Le belle fragole
- Adziù, Adziù!
- As one who strives to create beauty
- "Aou'! Stangado, aou'!"
- Naturally, Signore, I understand
- A thousand apologies to the Signore
- Beneath a dazzling sky the sea
- First the race!
- The boy, Tadzio, shall inspire me
- So, it has come to this
- Guardate, Signore!
- Do I detect a scent?
- And now I cannot let them out of sight
- "Kyrie eleison"
- Gustav von Aschenbach, what is this path you have taken?
- This way for the players, Signori!
- La mia nonna always used to tell me
- Ah, little Tadziù, Tadziù, we do not laugh like the others
- One moment, if you please
- So it is true, true, more fearful than I thought
- Receive the stranger god
- Do what you will with me!
- Yes, a very wise decision, if I may say so
- Hurrah for the Piazza
- Does beauty lead to wisdom, Phaedrus?
- The wind still blows from the land
- Ah no!
- Participant:
- Peter Pears, John Shirley-Quirk ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Steuart Bedford, conductor.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 1974 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Duration: 2 hr., 15 min., 57 sec.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 865507570
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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