Blühen
An opera adapting Thomas Mann’s seven-scene short story Die Betrogene, also translated as The Black Swan. The entry does not describe the opera’s plot.
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An opera adapting Thomas Mann’s seven-scene short story Die Betrogene, also translated as The Black Swan. The entry does not describe the opera’s plot.
John Neumeier’s ballet adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella, created for Hamburg Ballet in December 2003.
The novelist Gustav von Aschenbach travels from Munich to Venice seeking renewed inspiration. There he becomes fascinated by the Polish boy Tadzio, while cholera spreads through the city. Aschenbach follows Tadzio and his family, conceals the danger from them, and remains in Venice. After the family leaves, Aschenbach watches Tadzio on the beach, grows too weak to rise, and dies as the boy walks out to sea.
Set in Florence in 1492, Thomas Mann’s play makes Fiorenza an allegory of the city and the mistress of the dying Lorenzo de’ Medici. The preacher Girolamo Savonarola, who had once courted and been rejected by her, now preaches asceticism; Fiorenza confronts Lorenzo with her inability to escape Savonarola’s influence, while Lorenzo recognizes the religious leader as his equal.
Friends Shridaman and Nanda both fall in love with Sita; after Nanda helps Shridaman marry her, the two men behead themselves in a Kali temple. Kali revives them with their heads on the wrong bodies, and the resulting triangle ends with both men killing themselves and Sita joining their funeral pyre.
An opera adapting Thomas Mann’s seven-scene short story Die Betrogene, also translated as The Black Swan. The entry does not describe the opera’s plot.
John Neumeier’s ballet adaptation of Thomas Mann’s novella, created for Hamburg Ballet in December 2003.
The novelist Gustav von Aschenbach travels from Munich to Venice seeking renewed inspiration. There he becomes fascinated by the Polish boy Tadzio, while cholera spreads through the city. Aschenbach follows Tadzio and his family, conceals the danger from them, and remains in Venice. After the family leaves, Aschenbach watches Tadzio on the beach, grows too weak to rise, and dies as the boy walks out to sea.
Set in Florence in 1492, Thomas Mann’s play makes Fiorenza an allegory of the city and the mistress of the dying Lorenzo de’ Medici. The preacher Girolamo Savonarola, who had once courted and been rejected by her, now preaches asceticism; Fiorenza confronts Lorenzo with her inability to escape Savonarola’s influence, while Lorenzo recognizes the religious leader as his equal.
Friends Shridaman and Nanda both fall in love with Sita; after Nanda helps Shridaman marry her, the two men behead themselves in a Kali temple. Kali revives them with their heads on the wrong bodies, and the resulting triangle ends with both men killing themselves and Sita joining their funeral pyre.