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Death in Venice

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Librettist
Based On

the short story by Thomas Mann

Company
Spring Opera Theater
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
Curran Theatre
Season
1975
Language
English

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Designer
Choreographer
Lighting Designer
Musical Preparation
Production assistance
Costumes
(see notes)

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
Their governess
Jaschiu, Tadzio's friend
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
Their nanny
Strawberry seller
Lace Seller
Glassmaker
Beggarwoman
Waiter
Newspaper seller
Doll Seller
Postcard Seller
Photographer

Show Dates

Time and Place

1912; Munich and Venice

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- Munich
Act I, Scene 2 -- On the boat to Venice
Overture
Act I, Scene 3 -- Venice -- the journey to the Lido
Act I, Scene 4 -- The first evening at the hotel
Act I, Scene 5 -- On the beach
Act I, Scene 6 -- The foiled departure
Act I, Scene 7 -- The games of Apollo
Act II, Scene 1 -- The barber's visit
Act II, Scene 2 -- The pursuit
Act II, Scene 3 -- The strolling players
Act II, Scene 4 -- The travel bureau
Act II, Scene 5 -- The lady of the pearls
Act II, Scene 6 -- The dream
Act II, Scene 7 -- The beach
Act II, Scene 8 -- The barber's second visit
Act II, Scene 9 -- The last trip to Venice
Act II, Scene 10 -- The departure

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.