Mieczysław Weinberg: Die Passagierin 'the Passenger'

Bouquets to sopranos Nadja Stefanoff and Tetiana Miyus, respectively. The Graz Philharmonic acquit themselves superbly under the baton of Roland Kluttig. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2022

Release Date: 8th Jul 2022
Catalogue No: NBD0144V
Label: Naxos

International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Video: Opera

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Weinberg: The Passenger, Op. 97

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Mieczysław 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.

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October 2022

Bouquets to sopranos Nadja Stefanoff and Tetiana Miyus, respectively. The Graz Philharmonic acquit themselves superbly under the baton of Roland Kluttig.

Mieczysław Weinberg: Die Passagierin 'the Passenger'

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