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‘I simply cannot stop enthusing about Weinberg’s The Passenger. I’ve heard it three times now, studied the score, and every time I understand more of the beauty and greatness of this music. It is a work of consummate form and style and its subject extremely relevant.’ (Dmitri Shostakovich) In 1960, Lisa – formerly a guard at Auschwitz and now the wife of a West German diplomat – is on an ocean liner bound to Brazil. She thinks she recognizes in another passenger a woman named Martha, a Polish prisoner under her direct jurisdiction. Through a series of flashbacks across two acts, eight scenes and one epilogue, the audience witnesses the final reckoning between two women as they attempt to escape their pasts. The Passenger premiered in 2010 at the Bregenz Festival. With this new production by Oper Graz composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s powerful Holocaust drama continues to gain international recognition.
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Reviews
Nominee in the Opera category
2023 ICMA Nominee
**** Excellent Album
Pierre Flinois – Classica magazine (France) – September 2022
“… The sound is beautifully clear and well balanced. The performance is alert and communicative on everybody’s part. The main singers, all new names to me, are a highly capable lot and less afflicted by wobble and bark than are many prominent opera singers nowadays. Some of the women in smaller roles make a particularly beautiful sound, such as Tetiana Miyus, who (as Katja) gets to sing a sad multistrophic Russian folk song unaccompanied … With this, its first appearance on compact disc, The Passenger further confirms its ongoing resonance for our age.”
Ralph P Locke – artsfuse.org – 2 July 2022
“Self-recommending to anyone interested in 20th century opera.”
Dominy Clements – MusicWeb-International.com – 25 February 2022
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“A compelling 20th-century rediscovery makes it to CD at last.” ****½
Clive Paget – Limelightmagazine.com.au – 10 January 2022
Performance **** Recording ****
“… the extended arias by Marta and Katja in Scene 6 … are beautifully sung here by Nadja Stefanoff and Tetyana Miyus... Capriccio’s engineers have done a fine job in securing a good balance between singers and orchestra…”
Erik Levi – BBC Music magazine – January 2022
“… The opera, which was first staged at the Bregenz Festival as recently as 2010, takes place alternately on the ship and in Auschwitz, the epilogue at Martha’s home river. The work, which lasts about two and a half hours, is packed with intense music, which, however, never comes across as striking, but is used discreetly and psychologically. Roland Kluttig and the Graz Philharmonic do a fine job here … The interpretation of all involved is very clear, never overdone … 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.” *****
Alain Steffen – Pizzicato.lu – 28 November 2021
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