the short story by Thomas Mann
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Production
Designer
Choreographer
Lighting Designer
Musical Preparation
Production assistance
Costumes
Cast
Gustav von Aschenbach
Traveler
Elderly fop
Old gondolier
Hotel Manager
Hotel Barber
Leader of the Players
Dionysus
Apollo
Tadzio, a Polish boy
His mother
Tadzio's sister
Their governess
Jaschiu, Tadzio's friend
Young man on a boat to Venice
Girl on shore
Ship Steward
Hotel porter
Lido boatman
Strolling Player
Street dancer
Acrobat, beach guard
English clerk in a travel bureau
French Mother
Her daughter
German Mother
German Father
Their son
An American
Jaschiu's father
Polish son
Danish Lady
English Lady
Russian Mother
Russian Father
Russian child
Their nanny
Strawberry seller
Guide
Priest
Lace Seller
Glassmaker
Beggarwoman
Waiter
Newspaper seller
Doll Seller
Postcard Seller
Photographer
Gondolier
Tourist
Venetian
Show Dates
Time and Place
1912; Munich and Venice
Scenes
Media
Acknowledgements
This new, first American production of "Death in Venice" has been made possible by the sponsorship of the following friends of Spring Opera Theater:
J. Peter Cahill, Heidi Cortese, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Donnell, Rudolph W. Driscoll, Alfred Fromm, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon P. Getty, Dr. David N. Hart, Mrs. Edward Hohfeld, Otto E. Meyer, Eleanor Pinkham, Donald Ravitch, Mrs. Alan J. Rosenberg, Mrs. Madeleine Haas Russell, James H. Schwabacher, Jr., Trude Van de Velde, and Dr. Ronald Wing
Notes
Spring Opera Theater
West Coast Premiere
Costumes from the English Opera Group and The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, designed by Charles Knode.
The London production was made possible by a grant from the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa.