Description:
Mieczyslaw Weinberg - The Passenger (2010) [DVD9 PAL]
Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker / Chorus: Philharmonischer Chor Prag
Year: 2010
Run time: 02:41:00
Director: Felix Breisach / David Pountney
Producers: A coproduction of UNITEL and OR F in cooperation with Bregenzer Festspiele and CLASSICA
Published/Produced
[Germany] : Neos : Unitel Classica
Description
1 videodisc (190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in + booklet (162 p.).
Performer
Michelle Breedt, mezzo soprano (Lisa) ; Roberto Saccá, tenor (Walter) ; Elena Kelessidi, soprano (Martha) ; Arthu Rucinski, baritone (Tadeusz) ; Svetlana Doneva, soprano (Katja) ; Angelica Voje, mezzo-soprano (Krzystina) ; El?bieta Wróblewska, mezzo-soprano (Vlasta) ; Agnieszka Rehlis, alto (Hannah) ; Talia Or, soprano (Ivette) ; other soloists ; Prague Philharmonic Choir ; Wiener Symphoniker ; Teodor Currentzis, conductor.
Mieczys?aw Weinberg (also Moisey or Moishe Vainberg, Moisey Samuilovich Vaynberg; Russian: ?????? ?????????? ????????; Polish: Mojsze [Mieczys?aw] Wajnberg; 8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin. From 1939 he lived in the Soviet Union and Russia and lost most of his family in the Holocaust.
He left a large body of work that included twenty-two symphonies and seventeen string quartets. According to one reviewer, he ranked as "the third great Soviet composer, along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich"
On an ocean liner bound to Brazil, Lisa, the wife of a German diplomat sees a fellow passenger whom she recognises as Marta, a Polish prisoner from the Auschwitz concentration camp. Lisa is shocked because she thought that Marta was dead. Because of this encounter, Lisa reveals her husband Walter that she was an SS overseer during the war. In flashbacks we are told about what happened in Auschwitz and about the "relation" between Lisa and Marta.
Title from t.p. of accompanying booklet.
"A coproduction of UNITEL and ORF in cooperation with Bregenzer Festspiele and CLASSICA"--Container.
Extras: documentary film, In der Fremde (in German with English subtitles)
Program notes and libretto in German, English, French and Polish (162 : col. ill.) inserted in outer case.
Recorded July 2010, Bregenzer Festspiele Festspielhaus, Austria.
Sung in German, English, French, Russian and Yiddish; subtitles in German, English, French Polish,
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