Opera as a place of memory. “The Passenger” by Mieczysław Weinberg. 2017 in Gelsenkirchen

Plakatmotiv zur Aufführung von "Die Passagierin" im Gelsenkirchener Musiktheater im Revier
Plakatmotiv zur Aufführung von "Die Passagierin" im Gelsenkirchener Musiktheater im Revier

Musiktheater im Revier Gelsenkirchen

The Passager
 

An opera in two acts by Mieczysław Weinberg

Libretto by Alexander Medwedew based on the novel of the same name by Zofia Posmysz (1962)

In German, Polish, Russian, French, Czech, Yiddish and English with German surtitles.

 

First concert performance

25th December 2006, in the “Stanislavski and Nemirowitsch-Dantschenko Music Theatre” in Moscow

 

First full production

21st July 2010, Bregenzer Festspiele

 

In repertoire in Gelsenkirchen

28th January to 23rd April 2017

The performances in Gelsenkirchen were accompanied by a comprehensive programme of side events, including two exhibitions on Zofia Posmysz, conceived by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków (Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej in Krakau, MOCAK). One of the exhibitions on Zofia Posmysz was shown in the foyer of the Gelsenkirchen Musiktheater im Revier: the other took place in the Centre for Persecuted Art in the Solingen Museum of Art.

Trailer by Gelsenkirchen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxBRolIg_7o

 

For further information on Zofia Posmysz (in Polish), see: http://culture.pl/pl/tworca/zofia-posmysz   

 

Media library
  • In der Fremde - Mieczysław Weinberg at the Bregenz Festival

    A documentary by ORF, 30:24 min in German
  • Die Passagierin - Hörspiel von "COSMO Radio po polsku" auf Deutsch

    In Zusammenarbeit mit "COSMO Radio po polsku" präsentieren wir Hörspiele zu ausgewählten Themen unseres Portals.
  • “Literary images of the Holocaust. ‘The Passenger’ by Zofia Posmysz”

    Only in German. Centre for the Persecuted Arts in the Art Museum at Solingen, curator: Magdalena Mazik (Muzeum Sztuki Współczesnej w Krakowie MOCAK)
  • Interview with Zofia Posmysz (Polish with German translation)

    ‘Warden Franz’. Excerpts compiled by Anna Maria Potocka (MOCAK, 2016)