Opera in 2 Acts, 1973 - Music Benjamin Britten – Libretto Myfanwy Piper, after Thomas Mann
Opéra National du Rhin, 2021
« Ah, little Tadziù, we do not laugh like the others. Does your innocence keep you aloof, or do you look to me for guidance? » - Death in Venice, Act 2
CAST
Music direction : Jacques Lacombe
Staging, Set Design, Costume Design : Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Delœuil
Lighting and Collaborator for Scenic Design : Christophe Pitoiset
Artistic collaborator : Lodie Kardouss
Graphic Design : Julien Roques
Video : Pascal Boudet - Editing : Timothée Buisson
Dramaturgy : Luc Bourrousse
Toby Spence, Scott Hendricks, Jake Arditti, Peter Kirk, Laurent Deleuil, Elsa Roux-Chamoux, Eugénie Jonneau, Lionel Dragos
PRODUCTION
Opéra National du Rhin
ABOUT
Nowadays, in a city that might be Strasbourg. A famous writer undergoes an inspiration crisis, while attempting to add a few lines to his latest novel. Recurrently visited by odd and more or less fantasised figures, the artist also has to face visions of his own mother, and of himself as a preadolescent. Fantasising about imaginary Venice(s), the author is soon caught in a no-exit narcissistic delirium, preventing him to notice that all around him, in the city, an epidemic rages.
