Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann’s opera The Emperor of Atlantis is an allegorical meditation on life and death — they wrote and rehearsed it in an atmosphere teeming with both. The duo met in Terezin, ...

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Complete Information About Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín in Orlando at Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Opera Orlando presents Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín to commence its 2024-25 ...

It’s an incredible story of human resilience in the face of unspeakable horror — and it’s coming to Orlando. “It’s one of a kind, moving and heart-wrenching,” said Opera Orlando general director ...

World War II and the Holocaust ended the lives of some of Europe’s most talented composers and nearly silenced their music. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Nazi concentration camp ...

For many, the very idea of opera is antiquated, yawn-inducing and vaguely stuffy. For Hans Krása and Arnold Schoenberg, Jewish composers whose careers were marked by rising anti-Semitism in Europe in ...

This summer’s European tour by the Canadian Children’s Opera Company has particular poignancy. The cast will perform their version of the children’s opera Brundibar in Prague, Krakow and Budapest, as ...

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the atrocities and enormous loss of life in the Holocaust during World War II. Among the Nazi concentration camps was one north of Prague called Terezin ...

Separated by three generations, one lived through war to create a magical world of fantasy, and one was blessed to know peace but writes about an unimaginably tragic chapter of history. Playwright and ...

Terezin Holocaust survivor Lisl Bogart at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie. Photo credit: Amanda Berrios Few survivors of the concentration camp at Terezin remain. Even ...