Death in Venice, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, review: an impeccably tasteful, searingly intense staging of Britten's final masterpiece.

This new production of A Death in Venice was a wonderful ensemble performance from all the singers, dancers, and actors involved. Standing out from this throng was the unearthly beauty of Tim Mead’s

Ultimately, it is hard to be sure of McVicar’s overall interpretative scheme – just as it is to know whether Aschenbach’s stilted ponderings (largely derived from the third-person narration of T

It’s impressively, wholeheartedly done. The cast is first rate, often luxuriously so in the many cameos (Rebecca Evans as the Strawberry Seller!).

L’esecuzione musicale è impeccabile: dal podio, Richard Farnes, restituisce la complessità della partitura con una pulizia e ricerca di colori e sfumature tutta cameristica.