NEUMEIER, John: Death in Venice (Hamburg Ballet, 2004) (NTSC)

John Neumeier
DEATH IN VENICE

Freely adapted from Thomas Mann’s novella

Gustav von Aschenbach – Lloyd Riggins
His Assistant / His Mother / Tadzio’s Mother – Laura Cazzaniga
His “Friedrich der Grosse” – Ivan Urban
His “La Barbarina” – Hélène Bouchet
His “Concepts” – Silvia Azzoni, Alexandre Riabko
Tadzio – Edvin Revazov
The Wayfarer – Jiří Bubeníček, Otto Bubeniček
Jaschu – Arsène Mehrabyan
A younger Aschenbach – Konstantin Tselikov

Hamburg Ballet

John Neumeier, choreographer, staging, costume and lighting designer
Peter Schmidt, set and costume designer

Music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Richard Wagner
Elizabeth Cooper, piano

Recorded live from the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden, 2004

Bonus:
- Another Love Death (Der andere Liebestod) – A film by Norbert Beilharz, including an interview with John Neumeier and rehearsal footage

Picture format: NTSC 4:3
Sound format: PCM Stereo
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles (bonus): German, English, French
Running time: 123 mins (ballet) + 59 mins (bonus)
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)