The Lincoln Center Festival sends out The Passenger.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
Mieczyslaw Weinberg was a minor 20th century composer, best remembered for his association with Dmitri Shostakovich, his large output of string quartets and symphonies, and for his film score to Vinnie-Pukh, a distinctly Russian take on the children's story Winnie The Pooh. The Passenger may be his crowning achievement, a searing, intense opera that finds a German diplomat's wife having to confront her past as an overseer in the S.S. assigned to the concentration camp Auschwitz.
by Paul J. Pelkonen
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| The final tableau of The Passenger showing the split-level set. Photo by Stephanie Berger for the Lincoln Center Festival © 2014. |
