The Ludwig Van Picture Show// Death in Venice

The Ludwig Van Picture Show series of musical videos at Palazzo Cini  continues in the month of August with more sessions for rare-music lovers. The first date feautures  Death in Venice, an opera by Benjamin Britten. This movie is Benjamin Britten’s last creation , as a tribute to his friend, the great tenor Peter Pears. Britten tackles the topic of yearning for Beauty, meant as a moral value, as well as aesthetics («Beauty is the mirror of spirit», sings Apollo in the opera), in many of his works, among which Billy Budd. In Death in Venice he also includes a sense of decay, of detachment from life, topic which probably was familiar to the author for biographical reasons. Represented in 1973 at the Brittem Festival in Aldeburgh, the opera had immediately an unexpected success both with critics and public; in Italy the opera was represented for the first time in September 1973, at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
Free entrance.

Venice, Palazzo Cini at San Vio
2 August 2008, 17.00

Free entrance

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