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Weinberg: The Passenger

Weinberg: The Passenger

Opera

Opernhaus Graz

Production Date: 12/02/2021

Duration163 Min

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Shostakovich declared Weinberg's opera The Passenger "a masterpiece", and since its belated premiere in 2006 it's come to be recognised as one of the most intelligent – and devastating - operatic reckonings with the legacy of the Holocaust. The setting is an ocean liner bound for Brazil, some time after the end of World War II, where a German passenger with a dark past encounters a woman she knows to be dead. Memories, however, can deceive, and not every story has a tidy ending. Director Nadja Loschky's extraordinary 2020 production from Graz is uncompromising in its musical and dramatic power.

Soloists
Wiktor Modrzejewski (Violin), Dshamilja Kaiser (Mezzo-Soprano), Will Hartmann (Tenor), Nadja Stefanoff (Soprano), Markus Butter (Baritone), Tetiana Miyus (Soprano), Antonia-Cosmina Stancu (Soprano), Anna Brull (Mezzo-Soprano), Mareike Jankowski (Mezzo-Soprano), Sieglinde Feldhofer (Soprano), Joanna Motulewicz (Mezzo-Soprano), Ju Suk (Soprano), Ivan Oreščanin (Baritone), David McShane (Bass), Martin Fournier (Tenor), Konstantin Sfiris (Bass), Uschi Plautz (Mezzo-Soprano), Adrián Martinez Berthely (Tenor)
Ensembles
Graz Opera Chorus, Grazer Philharmoniker
Conductor
Roland Kluttig
The Passenger
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