Agnieszka Rehlis in Bregenz
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
At the Bregenz Festival 2010, Agnieszka Rehlis will perform the role of the young Jewish woman Hannah in Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera entitled The Passenger. The work, based on a short story by a writer and scenarzystki Zofii Posmysz, a former prisoner of concentration camps, is not performed frequently; even though it was written in 1968, it first appeared on stage in 2006. The opera speaks about the events that took place on board of a ship sailing to South America in 1950s and at Auschwitz Death Camp in 1943 and 1944.
This year, the Bregenz Festival devotes special attention to the works of the Warsaw-born composer, besides The Passenger showing his satirical opera The Portrait and organising a symposium devoted to Weinberg.
The first performance will be held already on 21st July, with successive ones on 26th, 28th, and 31st.
For more information turn to www.bregenzerfestspiele.com/en/node/1152