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Weinberg's 'The Passenger' to be staged at NY armoury as part of 2014 Lincoln Center Festival

This 2010 image released by Lincoln Center shows a scene from the production of Weinberg's "The Passenger," during the Bregenz Festival in Bregenz, Austria. “The Passenger,” Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 1968 opera about the Holocaust, will be given its New York premiere at the Park Avenue Armory next summer as part of the Lincoln Center Festival. Mezzo-soprano Michelle Breedt will sing Liese in the David Pountney production, a role she performed when the staging opened at the 2010 Bregenz Festival in Austria. Tenor Joseph Kaiser will sing Walter. (AP Photo/Bregenz Festival , Karl Forster)

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 1968 opera about the Holocaust, "The Passenger," will be given its New York premiere at the Park Avenue Armory next summer as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
Mezzo-soprano Michelle Breedt will sing Liese in the David Pountney production, a role she performed when the staging opened at the 2010 Bregenz Festival in Austria. Tenor Joseph Kaiser will sing Walter.
Patrick Summers will conduct the opera following performances he will lead in January at the Houston Grand Opera, where he is artistic and music director.
The opera, to be sung in English, portrays a German couple travelling on an ocean liner in the 1950s. Liese, a former SS officer, thinks she recognizes a former Auschwitz prisoner as one of the passengers.
Pountney's staging of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's "Die Soldaten" was presented at the Armory's Drill Hall as part of the 2008 Lincoln Center Festival. Festival director Nigel Redden said the armoury, with its soaring steelwork, is an ideal space for Weinberg's opera.
"The scene goes back and forth between Auschwitz and an ocean liner. The contrast is meant to be very strong," he said. "It connects with the glory of the ship and the horror of the box cars and the railroad tracks."
There will be performances July 10, 12 and 13 in a co-presentation of the armoury and the festival. The staging is a co-production that also includes the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, the English National Opera and the Teatro Real in Madrid.


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