Amazon.co.uk: Britten: Death In Venice [1989]: Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance, Peter Snipp, Gerald Finley, Jozik Koc, Robin Lough: DVD

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Britten: Death In Venice [1989]
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Actors: Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance, Peter Snipp, Gerald Finley
Directors: Robin Lough
Format: Full Screen, PAL
Language English
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Arthaus Musik
DVD Release Date: 2 April 2001
Run Time: 138 minutes

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DVD Features:
- Main Language: English
- Sub Titles: English, French, Spanish
ASIN: B00005B0ET
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 43,380 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
Britten's last opera, Death in Venice will always be associated with the two voices for which the major parts in it were written. It is the achievement of Robert Tear and Alan Opie, in this magisterial performance by Graeme Jenkins with the Glyndebourne touring company, to produce telling performances that are entirely separate from our memories. Tear's Aschenbach is more bull-like than Peter Pears' moralist dreamer; his drift into sentimental eroticisation of the boy Tadzio upsets him as much for the weakness it reveals as for the collapse of his virtue. Alan Opie is as much of a virtuoso as John Shirley-Quirk in the multiple roles that culminate in the corrupting voice of Dionysus--the hotelier who persuades Aschenbach to stay, the barber who gives him a toupee and paints his face, the street entertainer, the rake who flirts with sailors; the otherworldly counter-tenor of Michael Chance is spookily right as Apollo. The scenes for dancers manage to be at once dreams of the erotic and plausible adolescent sea-side wrestling; the direction by Stephen Lawless and Martha Clarke manages to capture the mistiness of the piece from which fate and strangeness suddenly emerge.

On the DVD: The DVD has subtitles in German, French and Spanish, as well as an acoustic which brings out the subtleties of Britten's string, brass and percussion in this difficult work. --Roz Kaveney

Special Features
4:3 Full Frame
English\French\Spanish

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