The fall schedule of the Canadian Opera Company features a production of Death in Venice with period costumes designed by Richard Hudson.
Death in Venice is an opera based on German author Thomas Mann's novella. Mann was inspired by the true story of Goethe's love for 18-year-old Ulrike von Levetzow and wrote a fictional story about Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous author in his mid-fifties travels to Venice and encounters lost luggage, disease, longing, lust, confusion and degradation.
The Canadian Opera Company's production originally premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2007 and was Benjamin Britten's last opera. The opera will be sung in English and tickets are available now at the COC website or box office.
Note: All images were provided courtesy of Canadian Opera Company. Designs are the copyright of Richard Hudson 2007.
5 comments:
Just back and already you're making me feel nostalgic! Great post, Ingrid:) Can't get my writing on Venice out when it's still so alive in my heart and in my head...
Hugs
How I love costumes and amazed at the costumers, the imagination and talent!
Have a wonderfully creative week Ingrid!
Nathalie
I'll take the black & white
striped jacket, please ...
jjj
Love that Dionysus looks like he just left an amazing party. Great vision.
HI Ingrid, some lovely posts. I have just seen one opera and loved it. La Traviata it was a knockout and I cried my eyes out!! Need to see more. Carla
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