The Passenger, Op. 97

Composer: Weinberg, Mieczyslaw

Librettist/Text Author: Medvedev, Alexander

Conductor: Kluttig, Roland

Orchestra: Graz Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus: Graz Opera Chorus

Chorus Master: Schneider, Bernhard

Bronka: Motulewicz, Joanna

Elderly Passenger: Sfiris, Konstantin

First SS Officer: Orescanin, Ivan

Hannah: Jankowski, Mareike

Kapo: Kirchmair, Maria

Katja: Miyus, Tetiana

Krystina: Stancu, Antonia Cosmina

Lisa: Kaiser, Dshamilja

Lisa as an Old Woman: Albrecht, Isabella

Marta: Stefanoff, Nadja

Old Woman: Suk, Ju

Second SS Officer: McShane, David

Senior Overseer: Plautz, Uschi

Steward: Berthely, Adrian

Tadeusz: Butter, Markus

Third SS Officer: Fournier, Martin

Vlasta: Brull, Anna

Walter: Hartmann, Will

Young Lisa: Riedl, Viktoria

Yvette: Feldhofer, Sieglinde

Set Designer: Pluss, Etienne

Costume Designer: Spreckelmeyer, Irina

Lighting Designer: Alphons, Sebastian

Stage Director: Loschky, Nadja

Television Director: Stummer, Axel

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Date of Production: 02-2021

Venue: Oper Graz

Playing Time: 02:42:44

Catalogue Number: 2.110713

UPC: 747313571352

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Mieczyslaw 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.