Transportation and post-performance reception and discussion with UChicago faculty and Lyric artistic staff included.
One of the most anticipated operas of Lyric’s 60th anniversary season, The Passenger is a recently rediscovered opera that explores the horrors of the Holocaust from the perspective of victim and perpetrator. Suppressed for more than 40 years, Weinberg’s gripping opera has emerged anew, portraying a chance encounter between a survivor and her Nazi overseer on an ocean liner bound for Brazil.
Currently registered UChicago students can purchase $15 tickets online at ticketsweb.uchicago.edu.
“Music of beauty and enormity…it is a perfect masterpiece…it is a hymn to humanity…to the international solidarity of those who, subjected to the most terrible evil, stood up against fascism.” Dmitri Shostakovich