The Passenger
- Composer:
- Composer: Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Conductor: Richard Armstrong
- Management:
- English National Opera, Bregenz Festival, Austria, Wielki Teatr, Warsaw, Teatro Real, Madrid
- Cast:
- Michelle Breedt, Giselle Allen, Kim Begley, Leigh Melrose, Julia Sporsen, Pamela Helen Stephen, Wendy Dawn Thompson, Carolyn Dobbin, Rhian Lois, Helen Field, Rebecca de Pont Davies, Adrian Dwyer, Charles Johnston, Gerard O'Connor, Graeme Danby
- Director:
- David Pountney
- Design:
- Johan Engels
- Lighting:
- Fabrice Kebour
- Costumes:
- Marie-Jeanne Lecca
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Search Amazon for The Passenger items Search for tickets at TicketmasterFor ENO's first new production this season, director David Pountney brings his world premiere staging of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's opera from Bregenz. Everything about the history of The Passenger is extraordinary. The libretto derives from a novel by the Polish writer Zofia Posmysz, who was sent to Auschwitz in 1943 yet managed to come out alive. Himself born in Poland in 1919, the Jewish Weinberg fled to Russia to escape the Nazis while the rest of his family vanished into the camps. Though befriended by Shostakovich, his career in Russia never flourished. Completed in 1968, his opera based on Pomysz's partly autobiographical story had to wait until the 2010 Bregenz Festival for its first, posthumous staging...
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