Death in Venice
In Our Time: Culture
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The Death of Ashenbach
It was adapted and made into a musical production by Benjamin Breslin in 1973. Within musical form you can kind of get at these internal conflicts of the mind, the ambiguities. There's this sense of very oppressive quality of the air, it's actually very unpleasant Venice that we have there. All of the beauty that Ashenbach looks at is Thadjo, he doesn't go into the museum, he Doesn't look at the buildings, he just sees empty graves ready to sort of take bodies as it were. The weather actually is very unpleasant, not what you would hope to get if you went on Mediterranean vacation.
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