Well, the first concert at the Auditorium di Milano for the 2025/26 Symphonic Season, the second one signed by Emmanuel Tjeknavorian as Music Director, comes full circle, connects the dots. On stage, Tjeknavorian conducts Mahler's Fifth Symphony, one of the pinnacles of music poetry of all time, as Gustav von Aschenbach reminds Tadzio in Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice", whose film version unfolds precisely on the poignant notes of Mahler's Adagietto from the Fifth:
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and therefore it is the way that leads the artist to the spirit