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Nadja Stefanoff as Marta and Dshamilja Kaiser as Lisa © Oper Graz / Werner Kmetitsch
Key Features: • This work is therefore still making its way in the world, and this Oper Graz production is acclaimed for its moving performances and highly effective stage setting. This DVD release follows on from a CD recording of the same production released on the Capriccio label (C5455); as a result of which Die Passagierin was declared ‘One of the most important and most brilliantly composed operas of the 20th century’ by Online Merker . • ‘ Roland Kluttig and the Graz Philharmonic do a fine job here… The four main roles are excellently cast with Dshamilja Kaiser (mezzo-soprano, Lisa), Nadja Stefanoff (soprano, Marta), Will Hartmann (tenor, Walter) and Markus Butter (baritone, Tadeusz), both singing and acting. The interpretation of all involved is very clear, never overdone, without sentimentality, and yet always in the service of the characters being portrayed. Weinberg’s impressive music is of great beauty and grandeur. It is certainly one of the most perfect (and accessible even to the untrained listener) operas of the second half of the 20th century.’ ( Pizzicato ). • Director Nadja Loschky ’s productions have ranged from Britten and Mozart to Verdi and Monteverdi in opera houses from Kassel and Heidelberg to Cologne and Zurich. She was resident director at Theater Bielefeld from the 2016–17 season, and is now artistic director. Mieczysław Weinberg’s powerful Holocaust drama Die Passagierin channels his and his family’s ordeals of wartime and Soviet persecution, applying them musically to Zofia Posmysz’s autobiographical novel. The score was praised by Shostakovich for its ‘beauty and greatness’, with a narrative that unfolds on an ocean liner bound for Brazil on which a former Auschwitz guard and one of her Polish prisoners confront impossible moral conflict and harrowing flashbacks in music that is sparse, dark, sardonic and intermittently tender. This acclaimed Oper Graz production draws us movingly into the raw unimaginable madness of this imperishable moment in history. Mieczysław WEINBERG (1919–1996) Die Passagierin (‘The Passenger’) Opera in two acts Libretto by Alexander Medvedev based on the novel of the same name by Zofia Posmysz Nadja Stefanoff, Soprano • Dshamilja Kaiser, Mezzo-soprano Will Hartmann, Tenor • Markus Butter, Baritone Chor der Oper Graz • Grazer Philharmoniker Roland Kluttig, Conductor • Nadja Loschky, Stage director
2.110713 Picture format: NTSC 16:9
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Sound format: PCM stereo and AC3 surround Languages: German, Polish, French, Czech, Yiddish, Russian and English Subtitles: German, English, Japanese, Korean Region code: 0 (worldwide) No. of disc/s: 1 (DVD 9) Release Date: 08 Jul 2022
Also available on Blu-ray Video: NBD0144V Picture format: HD 16:9 Sound format: PCM stereo and DTS-MA 5.1 Languages: German, Polish, French, Czech, Yiddish, Russian and English Subtitles: German, English, Japanese, Korean Region code: A, B, C No. of disc/s: 1 (BD 50) Release Date: 08 Jul 2022
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