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Death in Venice | Stage Door Society

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Death in Venice

Benjamin Britten

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Provenance

Composer

Benjamin Britten

Librettist

Myfanwy Piper

Premiered

1973

Synopsis

An aging writer becomes obsessed with a beautiful Polish boy on a cholera-stricken Venice beach in this adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella.

20th-centurybritishpsychologicaltragedy

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