Weinberg: Die Passagierin [The Passenger] (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY
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MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Weinberg: Die Passagierin [The Passenger] (complete opera recorded in 2021) BLU-RAY
Oper Graz / Dshamilja Kaiser, Nadja Stefanoff, Will Hartmann, Markus Butter / Roland Kluttig(cond)
[ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc ]
Release Date: Friday 8 July 2022
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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.
'Roland Kluttig and the Graz Philharmonic do a fine job here... The four main roles are excellently cast with Dshamilja Kaiser (mezzo-soprano, Lisa), Nadja Stefanoff (soprano, Marta), Will Hartmann (tenor, Walter) and Markus Butter (baritone, Tadeusz), both singing and acting. The interpretation of all involved is very clear, never overdone, without sentimentality, and yet always in the service of the characters being portrayed. Weinberg's impressive music is of great beauty and grandeur. It is certainly one of the most perfect (and accessible even to the untrained listener) operas of the second half of the 20th century.' (Pizzicato).
