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Edward Gardner conducts the English National Opera Orchestra and
Chorus in this production of Benjamin Britten's final opera based
on the novella by Thomas Mann. John Graham-Hall plays Gustav von
Aschenbach, an ageing novelist who becomes obsessed with Polish boy
Tadzio (Sam Zaldivar). The performance was recorded at The London
Coliseum in June 2013.
Lindsey Templeton is a young and beautiful diva with the opera
world at her feet. She has everything - a glittering career and a
wonderful family, to whom she is devoted. But into her life walks
opera-mad Russian billionaire Sergei Rebroff, who wants to buy his
way into overall control of a European opera company. And when she
falls pregnant, she doesn't know who the father is. Is it Sergei?
Or is it her husband, Jamie Barlow, casting director of London's
third opera company, Opera London? Set in the opera houses and
festivals of Europe during the closing months of Tony Blair's
premiership, My Wife the Diva is a comic romp through the glamorous
but often murky world of international opera. It is also
devastatingly honest about the anger and despair wrought on family
and friends by the frenetic lifestyle of a jet-setting artist. "A
Rabelaisian romp" (Jasper Rees Sunday Times) The author is opera
singer John Graham-Hall, whose recent appearances have included
Aschenbach in Britten's Death in Venice at ENO and La Scala, Milan.
Richard Jones's production of Benjamin Britten's most popular opera
takes to the stage at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. John
Graham-Hall stars as the eponymous, impetuous fisherman in this
mysterious tale set in a small fishing village on England's east
coast in the 19th century. Robin Ticciati, principal conductor of
the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, takes the helm in his La Scala
opera debut.
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