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Conductor

Jan Latham-Koenig

Andrey Lebedev

Stage director

Sergey Shirokov

Set designer

Larisa Lomakina

Costume designer

Igor Chapurin

Chorus master

Yulia Senyukova

Lighting designer

Aivar Salikhov

Singer

Soprano

Natalia Kreslina

Marta

Galina Badikovskaya

Mezzo-soprano

Valeria Pfister

Liese

Anastasia Bibicheva

Maria Patrusheva

Tenor

Dmitry Pianov

Walter

Mikhail Gubsky

Baritone

Artyom Garnov

Tadeusz

Ilya Kuzmin

Victoria Shevtsova

Katya

Kristina Bikmaeva

Polina Shamaeva

Krzystina

Irina Romishevskaya

Olga Terentieva

Vlasta

Anna Sinitsyna

Contralto

Svetlana Zlobina

Hannah

Elena Terentieva

Yvette

Olga Ionova

Ekaterina Kichigina

Old Woman

Svetlana Skripkina

Aleksandra Saulskaya-Shultyaeva

Bronka

Tatyana Tabachuk

Bass

Vitaly Efanov

1. SS Officer

Alexey Antonov

Vladimir Kudashev

2. SS Officer

Andrey Fetisov

Anton Bochkaryov

3. SS Officer

Dmitry Bobrov

Sergey Tarasov

Elderly Passenger

Mikhail Pervushin

Anatoly Grigoriev

Steward

Novaya Opera

Die Passagierin -  (The Passenger)

Moscow

Russia

Novaya Opera Theatre

Die Passagierin Weinberg

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The Passenger

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Moses (Mieczysław) Weinberg's The Passenger is an opera with an incredibly heavy, broken and, now obvious, happy fate. This opera is about Auschwitz, about people who become little cogs" in the merciless "death factory", about crime and retribution that have no statute of limitations. Weinberg's "Passenger" today is on a par with the main works of art of our time dedicated to this topic: from "The Night Porter" by Liliana Cavani to "Benefactors" by Jonathan Littell. And in this series , she was one of the first.

The composer finished work on the score of "Passengers" (libretto by Alexander Medvedev based on the story of the Polish writer Zofia Posmysh)
in 1968. The opera was enthusiastically received by fellow composers. Dmitri Shostakovich wrote that "this work is necessary, necessary in our time." The Bolshoi Theatre accepted "The Passenger" for production. But suddenly, everything collapsed. Theaters cancel announced premieres, a "conspiracy of silence" forms around the opera. For nearly forty years, The Passenger has been in disgrace. And only
in 2006 in Moscow the premiere of the semi-stage version took place. In February 2010, a concert performance was held in Novosibirsk. But the real triumphal procession of "The Passenger" began after the stage premiere at the festival in Bregenz (July 2010). In October of the same year, Weinberg's opera was staged in Warsaw, followed by performances in London (2011), Madrid (2012), Karlsruhe (2013), Houston (2014; later that year this version visited the festival at Lincoln Center, New York), Chicago and Frankfurt am
Main (both – 2015). In Russia, in 2014, a concert performance of the opera (Perm) took place, and in September 2016 the opera was staged in Yekaterinburg for the first time in our country.

The Moscow premiere of the work took place on January 27, 2017 at the Novaya Opera. This date was not chosen by chance. On January 27, the world celebrates the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. It was on this day that Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. And now we can say with confidence: the Moscow premiere of "Passenger" has become an event not only in the cultural, but also in the social and international life of the capital.

"Passenger" gathered a "star" team of directors and performers. The director of the performance is the television director Sergey Shirokov, for whom this is the first experience in the opera house. However, his directorial works on television are known to almost all our compatriots. For many years, it has been Sergey Shirokov who has been the director of the main entertainment programs on the Rossiya TV channel.

The production designer is Larisa Lomakina, whom the Moscow audience knows perfectly well from many outstanding performances in the drama theater, including joint work with director Konstantin Bogomolov.

The costume designer is the famous Russian fashion designer and fashion designer Igor Chapurin. In addition to his work in the field of haute couture, he has repeatedly collaborated with drama and ballet theaters both in Russia and abroad.

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