Mieczys?aw Weinberg: Die Passagierin 'the Passenger'

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Cat No: NBD0144V

Release Date: 08 July 2022

Label: Naxos - Nxp / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Blu-Ray Packaging

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 730099014465

Genres: Classical Opera

Composer/Series: Mieczys?aw Weinberg

Release Date: 08 July 2022

Label: Naxos - Nxp / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: DVD Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 747313571352

Genres: Classical Opera

Composer/Series: Mieczys?aw Weinberg

Description
Mieczys?aw Weinberg’s powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family’s ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz’s autobiographical novel. The score was praised by Shostakovich for its ‘beauty and greatness’, with a narrative that unfolds on an ocean liner bound for Brazil on which a former Auschwitz guard and one of her Polish prisoners confront impossible moral conflict and harrowing flashbacks in music that is sparse, dark, sardonic and intermittently tender. This acclaimed Oper Graz production draws us movingly into the raw unimaginable madness of this imperishable moment in history.

Description
Mieczys?aw Weinberg’s powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family’s ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz’s autobiographical novel. The score was praised by Shostakovich for its ‘beauty and greatness’, with a narrative that unfolds on an ocean liner bound for Brazil on which a former Auschwitz guard and one of her Polish prisoners confront impossible moral conflict and harrowing flashbacks in music that is sparse, dark, sardonic and intermittently tender. This acclaimed Oper Graz production draws us movingly into the raw unimaginable madness of this imperishable moment in history.