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Death in Venice
- Title
- Death in Venice / the Glyndebourne Touring Opera production ; by Benjamin Britten ; libretto by Myfanwy Piper after the novella by Thomas Mann.
- Publication
- Long Beach, Calif : Pioneer, [1995], ©1990.
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- Description
- 2 videodiscs (140 min.) : sound, color; 12 in.
- Summary
- Describes the grandeur and shabbiness of Venice in the grip of disease. Portrays the moral and physical degeneration of Aschenbach, the writer whose obsessive and self-devouring pursuit of beauty in the form of the boy Tadzio leads him to humiliation and death.
- Subject
- Note
- Stage production for BBC-TV in 1990.
- Performer (note)
- Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance; Glyndebourne Chorus; London Sinfonietta, conductor, Graeme Jenkins.
- System Details (note)
- Laserdisc extended play (CLV)
- OCLC
- ocm34699759
- 34699759
- SCSB-5519908
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries