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Weinberg's The Passenger
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Guilt, grief, loss and the abuse of power in a powerfully personal story. Weinberg’s 1968 opera The Passenger is based on a semi-autobiographical novel and stages the horrific and dehumanising behaviour of the guards at Auschwitz. It also refuses to allow these guards any kind of post-war redemption. The action alternates between an ocean liner in the post-war period and some scenes set in Auschwitz itself. Weinberg, who escaped Warsaw in 1939, l...
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1 dates (2 Apr - 2 Apr)
Apr
2
Fri
7:00 pm
Symphony Hall in Birmingham
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