Opera North – Fragility of Freedom: Terezin Lieder – HMD 2024

Activity information

Activity type: Public activity

Organisation name: Opera North

Website: https://www.operanorth.co.uk/whats-on/terezin-lieder/

Address:
Howard Assembly Room
34-40 New Briggate, Leeds
Leeds
Yorkshire
LS1 6NU
United Kingdom

For the third year in succession, the Howard Assembly Room presents a concert commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day, which this year has the theme Fragility of Freedom.

Pianist and Leeds Lieder director Joseph Middleton, together with baritone Simon Wallfisch, perform a hand-picked selection of songs by composers murdered in the holocaust, including Viktor Ullmann and Pawel Haas. Joseph comments, “I’m really pleased that Simon Wallfisch can do this recital. He’s the perfect singer for this concert… It will be thoughtful and sensitive and challenging.”

The duo will also present music by composers who were lucky to escape Nazi occupied Europe and live their lives in Exile in the US and UK, such as Kurt Weill, Erich Korngold, and Hans Gál, who escaped Vienna, was interned in the Isle of Man and went on to start the Edinburgh International Festival.

In association with the University of Leeds.

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Other organisation(s) involved

University of Leeds