A convoluted Death in Venice at the Deutsche Oper Berlin

Music director Donald Runnicles, in the fourth production of a Britten cycle under way since 2013, draws a mostly tight performance from the house orchestra as the score flows from neo-baroque sequences, to 12-tone confessions, to shimmering, percussive tableaux in which the diseased and the artisti...

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Published inFT.com
Main Author Schmid, Rebecca
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London The Financial Times Limited 20.03.2017
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Summary:Music director Donald Runnicles, in the fourth production of a Britten cycle under way since 2013, draws a mostly tight performance from the house orchestra as the score flows from neo-baroque sequences, to 12-tone confessions, to shimmering, percussive tableaux in which the diseased and the artistic become one. Nilon captures...