In "The Real Tadzio: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and the Boy Who Inspired It," Adair has given us something much more complex and intriguing than an account of the life of the boy who inspired ...

In search of the real Tadzio In the summer of 1911 a brief encounter with a Polish family inspired Thomas Mann to write Death in Venice, in which an elderly writer becomes infatuated with a ...

In this new musical production of “Death in Venice,” created by the internationally renowned Belgian director Ivo van Hove, the author is present.

Ian Bostridge is in top form in "Death in Venice," and he's onstage throughout --but he's not the star of Deborah Warner's new production for the English National Opera. That accolade goes to ...

Tadzio awakens something in the musician akin to religious ecstasy. Gay as it is on the surface, “Death in Venice” must be about human being as art, and art as demise.

In The Real Tadzio: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and The Boy Who Inspired It, British novelist Gilbert Adair has given us something much more complex and intriguing than a mere recitation of the ...

Just how gay is “Death in Venice”? A homoerotic "master text" or a cryptic parable of art, arrogance and self-deception? A fresh translation helps pry Thomas Mann's classic from too-literal ...

Soon, he becomes fascinated with Tadzio, and he falls madly in love. Yet, Visconti’s “Death in Venice” is not just a gay romance, but a meditation on the demise of bourgeois values.

Benjamin Britten’s 1973 Death in Venice, based on the Thomas Mann novella, was the composer’s last opera, and a brilliant, if disturbing, summation of themes traced through the arc of his output.

Death in Venice By sheer trick of time, Giles Havergal's gripping portrayal of a distinguished man undone by his illicit passion for a pretty boy conveys the gasping shock of immediacy. This ...