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Performance

VenueLondon Coliseum
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From19th September 2011
To25th October 2011
WhenSep 19, 29, Oct 7, 13, 15, 22 at 19:30. Sep 24 at 18:30
London Coliseum (V376)
Current/Future Listings
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The Passenger

The Passenger

Work:: The Passenger (S1806568918)

An encounter between two women - one a former Auschwitz guard, the other a former prisoner - plunges them both back into the horrors of the Holocaust, pitting perpetrator against victim in a moral battle between guilt and denial, retribution and absolution.
Music Mieczyslaw Weinberg

Production:: (T361149087)

Based upon a semi-autobiographical novel by Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz, Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 1968 opera The Passenger was effectively banned in the USSR and only finally received its triumphant stage premiere at last year's Bregenz Festival, 14 years after Weinberg's death. Hailed as ‘a work that demands and deserves to be seen' (Opera), this 20th century masterpiece, by a composer whose music has been characterised as ‘Shostakovich with a Jewish accent', now comes to ENO in David Pountney's shatteringly intense staging, conducted by Sir Richard Armstrong. Running time:
Company English National Opera
Director David Pountney
Conductor Richard Armstrong (Sir)
Design Johan Engels
Costume Marie-Jeanne Lecca
Lighting Fabrice Kebour
Director Ran Arthur Braun
Translation David Pountney
Performer Michelle Breedt (Lisa)
Performer Giselle Allen (Marta)
Performer Kim Begley (Walter)
Performer Leigh Melrose (Tadeusz)
Performer Julia Sporsen (Katya)
Performer Pamela Helen Stephen (Christina)
Performer Wendy Dawn Thompson (Vlasta)
Performer Carolyn Dobbin (Hannah)
Performer Rhian Lois (Ivette)
Performer Helen Field (Old Woman)
Performer Rebecca de Pont Davies (Bronka)
Performer Adrian Dwyer (SS Officer)
Performer Charles Johnston (SS Officer)
Performer Gerard O'Connor (SS Officer)
Performer Graeme Danby (Steward / Elderly Passenger / Kommandant)

Listing:: L366212937




Production details

Based upon a semi-autobiographical novel by Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz, Polish composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 1968 opera The Passenger was effectively banned in the USSR and only finally received its triumphant stage premiere at last year's Bregenz Festival, 14 years after Weinberg's death. Hailed as ‘a work that demands and deserves to be seen' (Opera), this 20th century masterpiece, by a composer whose music has been characterised as ‘Shostakovich with a Jewish accent', now comes to ENO in David Pountney's shatteringly intense staging, conducted by Sir Richard Armstrong. Running time:

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