Title Wagner in Venice

Genre Documentary   

Director Gianni Di Capua

 

Time  52 minutes 

Country  Italy

 

Year  2013   

Release Italy

Festivals and Awards Venezia Film Festival, Bayreuth Festival, Washington DC

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Synopsis  

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The photographic art of Carlo Naya, as preserved in surprisingly beautiful glass negatives, sets the scene for Richard Wagner's Venice. In a recording studio, an actor supplies the voice for Wagner's own narrative of the rediscovered first symphony. In the account written a few weeks before his death in the city on 13 February 1883, the composer describes a performance of the symphony by an orchestra made up of the teachers and students of the Venice Conservatory.