Abstract
Abstract It was possible to regret that Britten and Myfanwy Piper returned to Henry James for their second collaboration since they chose to adapt a story that is a good deal less compelling than The Turn of the Screw. With their last adaptation of story into opera, however, they showed a daring, and an imaginative power to justify it, fully equal to those exhibited by the first James opera. Britten’s Death in Venice was completed in short score in December 1972, and in full score early in 1973, for performance at the Aldeburgh Festival of that year. Because of the composer’s illness, he was unable to take part in the preparations for this production; Steuart Bedford conducted and Colin Graham produced the opera.
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