WORLD PREMIER.

Thomas Morse : Frau Schindler
 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 Mar 2017 
In German, and surtitled in German
München, Reithalle
Münchener Staatstheater
Conductor Andreas Kowalewitz
Director Kenneth Cazan
Design Kevin Knight
Lighting Michael Heidinger
Dramaturge Daniel C Schindler
Translation Michael Alexander Rinz
World premiere

Krakow at the beginning of the 1940s: The terror of National Socialism has gripped all areas of public life in Poland and the effects of »Total War« have not spared even the most intimate areas of civilian life. Domestic happiness and civic values have become a fond pipe dream in many places. This is the setting that provides the basis for the story of an ordinary couple who find themselves in extraordinary times in a similarly extraordinary situation and who in this way show how two people can perceive and experience things from very different points of view under the same circumstances – a very personal journey that tells of the survival of a woman during one of the darkest chapters in human history.

After the overwhelming success of Steven Spielberg’s film »Schindler’s List« in 1993, Emilie Schindler, the wife of the German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who saved the lives of around 1,300 Jews in the Second World War by employing them in his armaments factories, was initially completely overshadowed by her husband and her contribution to Schindler’s activities was unappreciated for a long time. And yet her view of the story is no less fascinating and of equal importance historically. Thomas Morse’s and Kenneth Cazan’s opera »Frau Schindler« is in part very different from the depiction of events as described in Spielberg’s film, but presents the historic events, without misplaced dramatic ornamentation, exactly as they are recorded in the personal memoires of Emilie Schindler. Or, to use Cazan’s own words: »Doesn’t it always turn out in the end that women will hold the world together?«

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