Death in Venice

Adaptations

  • A film of Death in Venice starring Dirk Bogarde was made by Luchino Visconti in 1971.
  • Benjamin Britten transformed Death in Venice into an opera, his last, in 1973.
  • The novella was dramatised by Peter Wolf for BBC Radio 3 in 1997.[14]
  • John Neumeier adapted it for a ballet for his Hamburg Ballet company in December 2003.[15]
  • A stage production in 2013, directed by Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin, titled Death in Venice/Kindertotenlieder, took elements from Gustav Mahler's song cycle Kindertotenlieder.
  • In 2023 Luk De Bruyker transformed the book into a stage play titled Dood in Venetië in Ghent, Belgium, with Koen Crucke in the lead role.[16]

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