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MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: DIE PASSAGIERIN
Chor der Oper Graz · Grazer Philharmoniker · Roland Kluttig
Opera in two acts, eight scenes and one epilogue Op. 97 (1968)
Libretto: Alexander Medvedev after the novel by Zofia Posmysz
Lisa: DSHAMILJA KAISER
Marta: NADJA STEFANOFF
Walter: WILL HARTMANN
Tadeusz: MARKUS BUTTER
CHOR DER OPER GRAZ
(Einstudierung / Chorus Master: Bernhard Schneider)
GRAZER PHILHARMONIKER · ROLAND KLUTTIG Dirigent/conductor
‘I simply cannot stop enthusing about Weinberg’s The Passenger. I’ve heard it three times now, studied the score, and every time I understand more of the beauty and greatness of this music. It is a work of consummate form and style and its subject extremely relevant.’ – Dmitri Shostakovich
In 1960, Lisa – formerly a guard at Auschwitz and now the wife of a West German diplomat – is on an ocean liner bound to Brazil. She thinks she recognises in another passenger a woman named Martha, a Polish prisoner under her direct jurisdiction. Through a series of flashbacks across two acts, eight scenes and one epilogue, the audience witnesses the final reckoning between two women as they attempt to escape their pasts. The Passenger premiered in 2010 at the Bregenz Festival. With this new production by Oper Graz composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s powerful Holocaust drama continues to gain international recognition.
