tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post113760147951691656..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Holocaust opera's rare performanceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1138005427273194132006-01-23T08:37:00.000+00:002006-01-23T08:37:00.000+00:00More information from www.hertsdirect.org ...The E...More information from www.hertsdirect.org ...<BR/><BR/><B><I>The Emperor of Atlantis - Special event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day</B><BR/><BR/>Fri, 27 Jan 2006<BR/>Event: The Emperor of Atlantis - Special event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day<BR/>Venue: <BR/><BR/>Venue: University of Hertfordshire, Weston Auditorium, de Havilland Campus, Hatfield, Herts.<BR/>Date: Friday 27th January<BR/><BR/>Time: 2.00pm<BR/><BR/>Presented by Upfront Opera in association with Hertfordshire Music Service and the Holocaust Education Trust.<BR/><BR/>Hertfordshire schools and residents are being offered a rare chance to quiz a Holocaust survivor, some of whose life experiences under the Nazis will be played out in fromt of them in an opera.<BR/><BR/>This one-off meeting with Steven Frank will take place before the performance of Ullman's famous opera "The Emperor of Atlantis". The opera, written in gruesome circumstances and smuggled out of Theresienstadt concentration camp, will recieve its Hertfordshire premiere with the critically acclaimed Upfront Opera company.<BR/><BR/>Amazingly this short opera was written at the very same concentration camp where Mr Frank lived during the Second World War. Mr Frank will take part in a special question and answer session before the performance to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. Using unseen footage, he will show Hertfordshire students exactly what the concentration camp was like, first hand.<BR/><BR/>You are invited to attend this special event free of charge. For ticket reservations please contact the Hertfordshire Music Service.</I>Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1137833846308246882006-01-21T08:57:00.000+00:002006-01-21T08:57:00.000+00:00A wonderful recording of this wonderful opera was ...A wonderful recording of this wonderful opera was released by Decca, in their Entartete Musik series in 1994, with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Lothar Zagrosek conducting and superb singers (Walter berry, Michael Kraus among others). Worth trying to get and listen!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1137782010524002452006-01-20T18:33:00.000+00:002006-01-20T18:33:00.000+00:00Interesting post! My wife and I visited Terezin in...Interesting post! My wife and I visited Terezin in January 1998 while spending a week in Prague on a combined business/pleasure trip. There was information in the local museum about the children's opera "Brundibar," which was performed during the war for Red Cross visitors, but I don't ever recall earing about this composition.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06877408572713743323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-1137623164438390482006-01-18T22:26:00.000+00:002006-01-18T22:26:00.000+00:00It was quite unplanned, but today turned into a de...It was quite unplanned, but today turned into a delightfully Czech day.<BR/><BR/>After writing this article we went to see Czech director Jan Sverak's Oscar winning film <I>Kolya</I> set in Prague during the decline of communism in the Eighties. Wonderful film, and wonderful to see an almost full house for the screening at Halesworth's innovative Cut Community Arts Centre.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com