Death Of Venice
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Exploring the impact of Climate Change, loss of places we hold dear and our sense of home. Death Of Venice explores Britten’s Third String Quartet in a new light. Composed with Britten’s understanding that he was dying, this intimate work seeks transcendence for the ‘Artist’ and life, and acts almost as a postlude to his opera Death in Venice. Today’s city of Venice is sinking beneath the sea, with climate change raising sea levels and causing climate destruction. Britten’s music acts as a mirror to our times and opportunity to both grieve and talk about the possible outcomes, ending with a question of hope for our future.
Join the Belinfante Quartet – four gondoliers who will transport you through Venice. Explore traditional music of Venice from her heyday; prose; theatre; music of Mahler and Britten’s sound-world of a dying city. Venice may well sink beneath the waves in our lifetime, but there are ways we could save the places, landscapes and people we hold dear.
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The Golescu complex works as a Cultural Landscape Observatory, with all its components (natural and man-made architecture, landscape, social values, community relations, living habits, etc.) through projects and workshops held annually. It has become one of the few cases of successful conservation, progressive restoration, and integration of a heritage objective into community life.
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