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Fania Fenelon
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The music score for the opera The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz is complete.
Six months before the premier of The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, 46 year old composer Stefan Heucke completed the musical score for the opera, the Netzzeitung reported.
The opera will premier September 16 at the United Municipal Theater of Krefeld-Mönchengladbach (Vereinigten Städtischen Bühnen Krefeld/Mönchengladbach), in Mönchengladbach, due west of Duesseldorf. 11 further shows will take place at both the Krefeld and Mönchengladbach venues.
Heucke based his 806 page composition on the 1976 published novel The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz by Fania Fenelon. Fania Fenelon, who died in 1983, is the most prominent survivor of the Auschwitz orchestra.
Fenelon wrote of her experiences. The orchestra had to play on the railway ramps while newly arrived prisoners were being selected for labour or gassing. The orchestra also played in the concentration camp’s hospital ward as well as at special SS events.
Heucke told Netzzeitung that he was motivated to write the opera already 27 years ago, immediately after he had finished reading Fenelon’s autobiography – a bestseller at the time.
Unlike most opera orchestras where orchestras play in a music pit, the Moechengladbach production will have a full scale orchestra playing behind a screen on the stage. A smaller second orchestra, an authentic makeup of the original orchestra, will play in front of the screen, the Netzzeitung reported.
Unlike in most classical orchestras, the Auschwitz ensemble was made up of every conceivable instrument – violins, mandolins, accordions and the like. Their reparatory consisted of classical pieces, marches and operettas.
World renowned alto, Anne Gjevang will sing the role of the orchestra conductor. Graham Jackson will conduct the production, directed by Jens Pesel.
Mönchengladbach/Theater
Sa, 16.09.2006 8 PM
Tu, 19.09.2006 8 PM
Su, 24.09.2006 7:30 PM
Sa, 30.09.2006 8 PM
We, 04.10.2006 8 PM
Sa, 07.10.2006 8 PM
Krefeld/Theater
Su, 26.11.2006 7:30 PM
We, 29.11.2006 8 PM
Sa, 02.12.2006 6 PM
Tu, 05.12.2006 8 PM
Fr, 08.12.2006 8 PM
Su, 17.12.2006 7:30 PM
Vereinigten Städtischen Bühnen Krefeld/Mönchengladbach
Theater Mönchengladbach
Odenkirchener Strasse 78,
41236 Mönchengladbach
Tel: +49(2151)805-152
FAX: +49(2151)805-137
siebold@theater-kr-mg.de
Theater Krefeld
Theaterplatz 3
47798 Krefeld
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