A thriller about obsession by Deborah Warner.
Deborah Warner's beautiful and evocative production of Britten's final operatic masterpiece has been acclaimed as an 'exquisitely achieved marriage of music, drama and design' (The Independent). In Britten's luminous and compelling interpretation of Thomas Mann's classic novella, the ageig writer Gustav von Aschenbach's infatuation witht he Polish boy Tadzio and his subsequent decliena re portrayed in a 'remarkable and harrowingly believable' performance (The Guardian) by John Graham-Hall, who had already won golden opinions for singing the role of Aschenbach at La Scala. The superb ENO Chorus and orchestra are conducted by Edward Gardner, a long-standing champion of Britten's music.
With the collaboration of Naxos
Music by Benjamin Britten
Based on the novella by Thomas Mann
Libretto by Myfanwy Piper
Production of the English National Opera
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Artistic team
Conductor | Edward Gardner
Stage director | Deborah Warner
Set designer | Tom Pye
Costume designer | Chloe Obolensky
Lighting designer | Jean Kalman
Chorus master | Paul Brough
Choreographer | Kim Brandstrup
Cast
Gustav von Aschenbach | John Graham-Hall
Traveller / Elderly fop/ Gondolier / Barber / Hotel manager / Player / Donysus | Andrew Shore
Apollo | Tim Mead
Tadzio | Sam Zaldívar
Polish mother | Laura Caldow
Her two daughters | Mia Angelina Mather, Xhuliana Shehu
The Governess | Joyce Henderson
Jaschiu, Tadzio's friend | Marcio Teixeira
Dancers | Thomas Edwards, Guglielmo Garavini, Olly Gerrie, Yossi Goodlink, Harry Hancock, Liam Morris, Ben Owen
Children | Ellie Broad, Alisa Maria Horova, Lincoln Mahon, Gabrielle McHardy-Costaine Brown, Jak Wright
