Passenger (CD)

'I simply cannot stop enthusing about Weinberg's The Passenger. I've heard it three times now, studied the score, and every time I understand more of the beauty and greatness of this music. It is a work of consummate form and style and it's subject extremely relevant.' (Dmitri Shostakovich) In 1960, Lisa - formerly a guard at Auschwitz and now the wife of a West German diplomat - is on an ocean liner bound to Brazil. She thinks she recognizes in another passenger a woman named Martha, a Polish prisoner under her direct jurisdiction. Through a series of flashbacks across two acts, eight scenes and one epilogue, the audience witnesses the final reckoning between two women as they attempt to escape their pasts. The Passenger premiered in 2010 at the Bregenz Festival. With this new production by Oper Graz composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg's powerful Holocaust drama continues to gain international recognition.

Track List

1. ** Passazhirka (The Passenger) Op. 97
2. Vorspiel
3. Act I Scene 1: Das Ufer in der Ferne ist nicht mehr zu sehn! (Walter Lisa Steward)
4. Act I Scene 1: Was ist los mit Ihnen Aufseherin Franz? (Oberaufseherin Lisa Walter)
5. Act I Scene 1: Marta? Kann das Marta sein? (Lisa Chorus Steward Walter)
6. Act I Scene 1: Sei still sei still (Lisa Walter)
7. Act I Scene 1: Die Angst hat mir nachts die Kehle zugeschnürt (Lisa Walter Steward)
8. Act I Scene 1: Fort Gespenster der Vergangenheit! (Lisa Walter Chorus)
9. Act I Scene 2: Wie langweilig ist's hier Hans! (First SS-Mann Second SS-Mann Third SS-Mann Oberaufseherin)
10. Act I Scene 2: Ty ukryt at n'eba r'eshotkaj (Chorus)
11. Act I Scene 2: Du hast gut gelernt mein Kindchen (Oberaufseherin Lisa Marta)
12. Act I Scene 3: Neuzugänge Neuzugänge haha! (Alte Yvette Vlasta Marta)
13. Act I Scene 3: Prahad'it'e ustraivajt'es' padrugi (Krystina Chorus Yvette)
14. Act I Scene 3: Dalí den minul uplynul (Vlasta Chorus Marta Bronka Hannah)
15. Act I Scene 3: Vspomniat li nas kagda-nibud' l'udi? (Marta Hannah)
16. Act I Scene 3: Swiety Boze Jezu Chryste! (Bronka Krystina Yvette Marta)
17. Act I Scene 3: Skareje vady! Vady! Eta russkaja! Russkaja! (Marta Krystina Katja Hannah Vlasta Kapo Alte Lisa)
18. Act I Scene 3: Geliebter mein geliebter Tadek! (Marta Lisa Vlasta Krystina Hannah Katja Chorus)
19. Act II Scene 4: Heil! Heil! Du kennst dich doch mit Geigen aus verdammte Dinger! (First SS-Mann Lisa)
20. Act II Scene 4: Ty zyjesz? (Marta Tadeusz)
21. Act II Scene 4: Ach ihr kennt euch? (Lisa Tadeusz Katja Marta)
22. Act II Scene 5: Jesli tutaj mozna byc ostroznym … Spróbuje (Tadeusz Lisa)
23. Act II Scene 6: Pazdravl'aju pazdravl'aju (Katja Yvette Krystina Vlasta Hannah Bronka Marta)
24. Act II Scene 6: Zalataja osen' pust' prid'ot krotasti palna i tsishyny (Marta)
25. Act II Scene 6: Du vest lebn dos iz emes emes ikh veys dos (Hannah Marta Krystina Yvette Vlasta Bronka)
26. Act II Scene 6: Hör mal Marta wenn du möchtest besucht dich morgen hier dein Tadeusz (Lisa Marta Chorus)
27. Act II Scene 6: Bon après moi répète (Yvette Bronka Vlasta Hannah Krystina Marta Katja)
28. Act II Scene 6: Ty dalinushka dalina razdolie shyrokaje (Katja Marta)
29. Act II Scene 6: A A A … N'e zabyvajt'e nas n'e zabyvajt'e (Yvette Katja Chorus Lisa Krystina Bronka)
30. Act II Scene 7: Es ist hier so schön und du bist in der Kajüte (Walter Lisa Steward)
31. Act II Scene 7: Your good health Sir (Älterer Passagier Walter Lisa)
32. Act II Scene 7: Oh schon wieder die Frau diese geheimnisvolle Passagierin (Walter Lisa)
33. Act II Scene 8: Spiel tüchtig auf Geiger! (First SS-Mann)
34. Act II Scene 8: Ch'ornaja st'ena ch'ornaja st'ena (Chorus)
35. Act II: Epilog: Jak cicho wokól mnie! (Marta)