Due to Covid-19, Benjamin Britten’s “Death in Venice” had to be postponed again and again. But David McVicar’s (staging) and Gerrit Prießnitz’s (musical direction) new production, a cooperation with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, is finally ready for us – with countertenor Thomas Lichtenecker as the Voice of Apollo.
Shortly afterwards Lichtenecker also reprises his role as castrato Caffarelli in Christian Kolonovits’s musical “Vivaldi – Die fünfte Jahreszeit”.
Volksoper Vienna
Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice
Thomas Lichtenecker: the Voice of Apollo
May 14 (première), 17, 21, 24, 28, 31.
Christian Kolonovits: Vivaldi – die fünfte Jahreszeit
Thomas Lichtenecker: Caffarelli, a castrato
May 22 (première), 27; June 6, 8, 16, 19, 27.