A world premiere for Holocaust Remembrance Day
OperaThe Promise (Löftet in Swedish) is the story of Ava who becomes separated from her husband, Teo, in a concentration camp. Determined to be reunited with her husband after the war, she travels through the ruins of a traumatised Europe in search of him. We accompany her on a journey that sways between dream and reality, hope and despair.
ON January 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Royal Swedish Opera pays tribute to the victims in a new comission from composer Mats Larsson Gothe. The world premiere happens on this day and live on Slippedisc courtesy of OperaVision.
It is a story about the invincible power of love seventy-six years after the liberation of Auschwitz. ‘We find ourselves in a time outside time, as the victims of war take their first uncertain steps towards reclaiming their humanity’, says librettist Susanne Marko, who was inspired by her own family history. conducted by Alan Gilbert, directed by Stefan Larsson, with Hanna Husáhr as Ava and Karl-Magnus Fredriksson as Teo.
Available from 27 January 2022 at 1900 CET / 1800 London / 1300 NY
Evgeny Kissin
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I have received today from an Italian friend of mine:
“Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it.
I want to send you a quote from a famous Italian writer Primo Levi.
We will never forget. We stand with Israel.”