Ópera en dos actos que se desarrolla en un trasatlántico rumbo a Brasil en 1959. Lisa, la mujer de un diplomático alemán, ve entre los pasajeros a una mujer que le recuerda a Marta, una prisionera de Auschwitz a la que había mandado ejecutar en sus años como guardia en el campo de concentración. Esa aparición despierta una serie de escenas a modo de recuerdos, de un pasado que Marta quería olvidar. Aparecen de nuevo para ella el miedo, los temblores y la tragedia vivida mientras que en Lisa surge una sensación de culpa y responsabilidad individual. Pasado y presente se persiguen mutuamente en una ópera de recuerdos y obsesiones que ahonda en uno de los episodios más vergonzosos de la historia de la humanidad.
Opera
Die Passagierin
The Passenger
Mieczyslaw Weinberg
01 Mar, 24 - 24 Mar, 24
Musical conductor: Mirga Gražinytè-Tyla | Stage direction: David Pountney | Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
In collaboration with
An opera that combines two simultaneous actions in two different periods of time and context and is an emotional earthquake. A spectacular setting that will show the spatial duality of a concentration camp and a holiday cruise, two antagonistic situations experienced by both protagonists of this moving opera about forgiveness.
Above, the deck of a transatlantic en route to Brazil. Below, the horrifying memory of a concentration camp. Between both these settings are two women, trying to escape their past in search of a better future. Based on the autobiographical work by Zofia Posmysz – Polish journalist and novelist, a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrück–, Die Passagierin represents an emotional cataclysm whose epicentre is the relationship between two women who were in Auschwitz in two very different positions: one was a prison guard and the other, a Jewish prisoner.
The story spread across Poland as a radio drama (The Passenger from Cabin 45, 1957), a novel (The Passenger, 1962) and a homonymous film (1963) before Shostakovich recognised its suitability for an opera. He recommended it to the Polish-born Soviet composer Mieczylaw Weinberg, who bore the dubious honour of having suffered the fury of anti-Semitism in both its Nazi and Stalinist variants. Completed in 1968 and silenced for decades by the Russian authorities, this shocking opera comes to the Teatro Real backed by an irrepressible international fame.
Melodramma in two acts
Music by Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996)
Libretto by Alexander Medvedev, based on the novel of the same name (1962) by Zofia Posmysz
Premiere in a semi-staged version at the Moscow International Auditorium on 25 December 2006 and in a staged version at the Bregenz Festival on 21 July 2010.
Premiere in Spain
New production of the Teatro Real, in co-production with Bregenz Festival, Teatr Wielki in Warsaw and English National Opera.
Artistic team
Musical conductor: Mirga Gražinytè-Tyla
Stage director: David Pountney
Set design: Johan Engels
Costumes: Marie-Jeanne Lecca
Lighting: Fabrice Kebour
Chorus master: José Luis Basso
Cast
Marta: Amanda Majeski
Tadeusz: Gyula Orendt
Katja: Anna Gorbachyova-Ogilvie
Krzystina: Lidia Vinyes-Curtis
Vlasta: Marta Fontanals-Simmons
Hannah: Nadezhda Karyazina
Ivette: Olivia Doray
Alte: Helen Field
Bronka: Liuba Sokolova
Lisa: Daveda Karanas
Walter: Nikolai Schukoff
Älterer Passagier / Steward / Kommandant: Graeme Danby
Oberaufseherin / Kapo: Géraldine Dulex
Men of the S.S.: Hrólfur Sæmundsson, Marcell Bakonyi y Albert Casals
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the death of Gerard Mortier (1943-2014)
German
English, Spanish
Synopsis of Die Passagierin
Cast
Performances
- Date/hour
- Space
- Cast
- Subscription ticket
01 March 2024
19:30
Main Auditorium
04 March 2024
19:30
Main Auditorium
07 March 2024
19:30
Main Auditorium
10 March 2024
18:00
Main Auditorium
13 March 2024
19:30
Main Auditorium
18 March 2024
19:30
Main Auditorium
20 March 2024
19:30
Main Auditorium
24 March 2024
18:00
Main Auditorium
Parallel activities
Mesa redonda
Lecturas de La pasajera: un viaje por la memoria y las artes
El Centro Sefarad-Israel y el Instituto Polaco de Cultura proponen un acercamiento a la ópera de Mieczysław Weinberg y al libreto de Alexander Medvedev, basado en la novela homónima de Zofia Posmysz. Con la participación de Joanna Bardzińska, directora de la Fundación AVA Arts Foundation, Jorge Volpi, escritor, y Arnolod Lieberman, escritor y musicólogo, el acto ahondará en los significados de esta ópera, más allá de lo estrictamente operístico. Una reflexión sobre la memoria, la culpa, la responsabilidad y la supervivencia.
20 de marzo. 18.00 h
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18:00
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