Bibliograph

The passenger, opera in two acts, by Mieczysław Weinberg ; libretto by Alexander Medvedev ; after the novel by Zofia Posmysz ; Bregenz Festival, from the Festspielhaus, in co-production with Wielki Teatr Warsaw, English National Opera London, and Teatro Real Madrid

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The passenger, opera in two acts, by Mieczysław Weinberg ; libretto by Alexander Medvedev ; after the novel by Zofia Posmysz ; Bregenz Festival, from the Festspielhaus, in co-production with Wielki Teatr Warsaw, English National Opera London, and Teatro Real Madrid

Language

ger

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

The passenger

Oclc number

927112346

Responsibility statement

by Mieczysław Weinberg ; libretto by Alexander Medvedev ; after the novel by Zofia Posmysz ; Bregenz Festival, from the Festspielhaus, in co-production with Wielki Teatr Warsaw, English National Opera London, and Teatro Real Madrid

Runtime

182

Sub title

opera in two acts

Summary

Continuing its tradition of unearthing little-known 20th-century operas, the Bregenz Festival presented the first staged production of Polish-Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg's "The Passenger" in 2010. Written in 1967/68, the opera relates the chance meeting of a former concentration camp guard and one of her former inmates on an ocean liner years after the war

Technique

live action

Classification