The Passenger (opera)
| The Passenger | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Mieczysław Weinberg | |
| Native title | Russian: Пассажирка (Passazhirka) |
| Librettist | Alexander Medvedev |
| Language | Russian |
| Based on |
Pasażerka z kabiny 45 by Zofia Posmysz |
| Premiere | 2010 Bregenzer Festspiele |
The Passenger (Russian: Пассажирка (Passazhirka)) is an opera by Mieczysław Weinberg to a libretto by Alexander Medvedev.
The libretto is based on the Polish radio play Pasażerka z kabiny 45 (Passenger from Cabin Number 45) (1959) by concentration camp survivor Zofia Posmysz. Zofia Posmysz's play was rewritten into a novel Pasażerka in 1962. She also worked with Andrzej Munk on the screenplay of his posthumously finished film Pasażerka (1963). The original libretto by Alexander Medvedev is in Russian. The worldwide première in 2010 featured a reworked libretto in German, English, Polish, Yiddish, French, Russian, and Czech.
Originally scheduled to be performed at the Bolshoi in 1968, the opera was not premièred, and then only in a concert version, until 2006 in Moscow. The full staged première was in 2010 at the Bregenzer Festspiele, directed by David Pountney, with a set design by Johan Engels. Teodor Currentzis conducted the Wiener Symphoniker and the Prague Philharmonic Choir. The performance was videoed and released on DVD and Blu-ray. The same production was presented in Warsaw by Polish National Opera in 2010 and received its UK première on 19 September 2011 at the English National Opera (broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 on the 15th of October). In 2013, it was performed in Germany for the first time at Badisches Staatstheater in Karlsruhe.The Passenger received its American premiere on January 18, 2014 at Houston Grand Opera. The opera has also premiered at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and at the Frankfurt Opera (Germany), both in early 2015.
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