‘Looking forward through the past’: New Operas from the Jewish Archive

Students from the University of Leeds and the Royal Northern College of Music present a programme of newly-composed opera scenes depicting stories of Jewish migration, internment and exile.

Taking the latest archival discoveries of the Performing the Jewish Archive team as inspiration, some of the finest young composers in the region have created a series of powerful and moving scenes for mixed voices and small instrumental ensemble, under the supervision of Prof Adam Gorb and Dr Stephen Muir.

This concert represents the culmination of a month’s music and theatre, ‘Out of the Shadows’. Having looked back to the archive of Jewish musical and theatrical heritage, we bring the Festival full circle, combining the two artforms and, looking forward through the past, begin to create the Jewish musical-theatrical archive of the future.

• Charlotte Marlow ‘Stories of Terezín’
• Anna Appleby ‘The Attic’
• Daniel Lim ‘As If It Were Life’
• Johanna Marx ‘Second-Hand Smoke’
• Eldad Diament ‘Herr Ludwigs Singspiel’
• Melissa Douglas ‘Kristallnacht’
• Mark Turner ‘The Cantor’s Lament’
• Singers: Charlotte Mason, Freya Holliman, Ingvild Schultze-Florey, Matthew Palfreyman, Edwin Kaye, Tim Bagley
• Instrumental ensemble: Carlos Arango (conductor), Cressida McKay Frith (flute/piccolo), Freya Chambers (clarinet/bass clarinet), Michael Smith (trumpet), Clemence Prudhomme (violin), Inés Mota Piño (cello)
• Repetiteur: Rachel Fright

Tickets
Admission free