Since the world premiere performance twenty years ago, the multimedia concert-drama Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezn, has had a profound and lasting impact on the performers, audiences, and communities who have experienced this powerful story live. Defiant Requiem combines the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimonials and narration, to tell the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezn) who performed the celebrated Verdi Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation. With only a smuggled score, they performed the famous oratorio sixteen times, including one performance before senior SS officials from Berlin and an International Red Cross delegation. Conductor Rafael Schchter told the choir, We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.
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Season 18: CONSTELLATIONS and HEAD OVER HEELS
Constellation Theatre Company (2/6 - 6/1) | |
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The Immigrant
Theater J (4/11 - 4/27) | |
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Sister Act
Ford's Theatre (3/14 - 5/17) | |
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Sketch Night - A Sketch Comedy Showcase
Bad Medicine Comedy (4/26 - 4/26) COMEDY
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Choke (Sucede hasta en las mejores familias)
GALA Hispanic Theatre (4/24 - 5/18) | |
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Galatea
MC Cultural Arts Center (4/18 - 5/10) | |
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Untitled Tarell Alvin McCraney Play
Fichandler Stage at Arena Stage (5/16 - 6/15) | |
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American Festival Pops Orchestra: Armed Forces Day Celebration
Hylton Performing Arts Center (5/17 - 5/17) | |
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The Meaningful Action Theatre Company Presents A Workshop Reading Of Muffed: A Recounting Of Farmington, Maine's 43rd Annual Chester Greenwood Day Devised By The Members Of The Meaningful Action Theatre Company
Prologue Theatre (4/24 - 5/18) | |
Andy Warhol in Tehran
Mosaic Theater (5/29 - 6/29) | ||
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Some Like it Hot
Hippodrome at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center (5/6 - 5/11) | |
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