The Passenger at Houston Grand Opera

Dates: (1/18/2014 - 2/2/2014 )

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Houston Grand Opera

510 Preston Street
Houston,TX TX 77002

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Memory can comfort, torment-even terrify-but it is always with us. As Faulkner wrote, "The past isn't dead. It isn't even past."

The horrors of the Second World War, still raw today, were fresh in 1959 when Auschwitz survivor Zofia Posmysz wrote a play titled The Passenger from Cabin 45 for Polish radio. The play became the basis of the opera by Mieczyslaw Weinberg in 1967.

En route to a new post with her husband, a German diplomat, Lisa is unnerved by the sight of a woman-another passenger-who eerily resembles Martha, one of the inmates Lisa tormented when she was an SS overseer at Auschwitz.

The action of the drama takes us from the stylish gentility of a luxury liner's deck to the squalor of a death camp where cruelty, despair, and unspeakable courage are evident in equal measure. This American premiere will be one of the most important musical events of the year.

Cast and Creative team for The Passenger at Houston Grand Opera

Cast
Liese - Michelle Breedt
Walter - Joseph Kaiser
Marta - Melody Moore
Tadeusz - Morgan Smith
Katya - Kelly Kaduce
Bronka - Kathryn Day

Creative Team
Conductor - Patrick Summers - Margaret Alkek Williams Chair
Director - David Pountney
Set Designer - Johan Engels
Costume Designer - Marie-Jeanne Lecca
Lighting Designer - Fabrice Kebour
Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Richard Bado, Chorus Master

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