New York Times by Michael White

Death in Venice

Andreas Heise’s choreography was sharp, clean, elegant, avoiding the awkwardness the dancing sometimes generates, with females introduced wherever possible to diffuse the routines’ homo-eroticism. Célestin Boutin, 19, played Tadzio with none of the come-hither provocation that would have been par for the course in 1973. As the libretto demands, he noticed being noticed. But it was all a game, in which he was able (and old enough) to take care of himself.