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Kåre Viemose/Den Jyske Opera
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The Danish premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Passenger inaugurated the 2018/2019 season of the Danish National Opera (Den Jyske Opera) in Aarhus. Directed by Philipp Kochheim, the artistic director of the opera in Aarhus, and conducted by maestro Christopher Lichtenstein, it was the first performance of the opera in Scandinavia. The inaugural performance took place on 22nd August 2018.
The Passenger is the first of seven operas by Weinberg, a Polish Jew who escaped from Poland, without his family, to the Soviet Union when the Nazis invaded in 1939. The Passenger is based on the real-life experience of Holocaust survivor Zofia Posmysz, who was imprisoned in Auschwitz during World War II. Posmysz’s book, The Passenger, forms the basis of the libretto by Alexander Medvedev.