Publisher:
Faber, London
;
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, 'Death in Venice', seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for nearly twenty years, they are observed and...
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Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, 'Death in Venice', seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W H Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for nearly twenty years, they are observed and interrupted by amongst others their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.