Out of Darkness – An Opera of Survival
$30-$45
Music of Remembrance presents the world premiere of its newest commission Out of Darkness from the internationally acclaimed team of composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer. The two-act opera is a powerful portrait of survival that conveys the vastness of the scope of the Holocaust through emotionally rich depictions of those caught in its grasp.
Directed by Erich Parce, the opera relates the amazing true story of Krystyna Zywulska, whose daring poems became anthems of defiance among her fellow prisoners in Auschwitz. It also explores the fate of homosexuals during the Holocaust through the experience of Gad Beck and Manfred Lewin, two idealistic young lovers in 1930s Berlin whose lives and love were torn apart under Nazi rule.
3:15 p.m. Pre-concert talk with Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer – free to all ticket holders.
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