Police protection for The Jewess in Dresden

First reports from Dresden’s world premiere of Detlev Glanert’s new opera focus on the intensive security around it.

The police presence in Dresden is obvious this weekend. On the anniversary of the bombing of the city on February 13th, neo-Nazis regularly announce their marches. The political atmosphere is already tense, just before the state elections and with the AfD’s current poll numbers in Saxony. It’s rare that the Semperoper’s schedule is so seemingly contemporary With the “Jewess of Toledo” by Detlev Glanert, whose opera “Oceane” was a great success at its premiere in Berlin , and its lyricist Hans-Ulrich Treichel, a new opera can be seen that is about anti-Semitism and hatred , intolerance, fanaticism.

The opera is based on a 19th centuury novel by the Austrian national poet Frfanz Grillparzer.

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photo: Semperoper Dresden/Ludwig Olah