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52 years ago:
Death in Venice (FR,IT)
Original title: Morte a Venezia
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
1971-03-02
themoviedb.org/movie/6619

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Tim Ashley · @TimAshAsh
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Benjamin Britten died in 1976.

This is Tony Palmers's 1981 television film of his last opera, Death in Venice, with Robert Gard as Aschenbach:-

youtube.com/watch?v=bIm4jDmnKM

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Tony Pennino · @beatnikprof
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I’m just finishing up my own private mini festival: and the “German trilogy” of and - he’s fallen off the radar but he’s brilliant, painterly in his vision, and his autopsy of the nobility/privileged speaks well to the current political moment. 🎥

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