Libretto
Myfanwy Piper
(after Thomas Mann)
Premiere
16 June 1973, Snape (The Maltings)
Cast
GUSTAV VON ASCHENBACH (tenor)
TRAVELLER/ELDERLY FOP/OLD GONDOLIER/HOTEL MANAGER/HOTEL BARBER/LEADER OF THE PLAYERS/VOICE OF DIONYSUS (bass-baritone)
VOICE OF APOLLO (countertenor)
CHORUS
Youths and girls, hotel guests and waiters, gindoliers and boatmen, street vendorrs, touts and beggars, citizens of Venice, choir in St Marks, tourists, followers of Dionysus
CHORUS includes Danish lady, Russian mother, English lady, French girl, strawberry seller, lace seller, newspaper seller, strolling player (sopranos)
French mother, German mother, Russian nanny, beggar woman (contraltos)
Hotel porter, 2 Americans, 2 gondoliers, glass maker, strolling player (tenor)
Ship's steward, lido boatman, Polish father, German father, Russian father, hotel waiter, guide in Venice, restaurant waiter, gondolier, priest in St Mark's, english clark in the travel bureau (baritone and bass)
Polish mother, Tadzio, 2 daughters, governess, Jaschiu, boys and girls, strolling players, beach attendants (dancers)
Place
Time
1911