Getting ready for Letters to Fred. Here’s a short clip from our rehearsal last night, it’s the end of the last letter from Fred’s aunt Hilda.
Letters to Fred: A Portrait of the Herzberg Family During the Holocaust
Music by Bracha Bdil, letters compiled and […]
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I also get to sing Ottavia & Drusilla (& Virtù) in L’incoronazione di Poppea, which will be my first time singing pre-Baroque music. Letters to Fred will be performed twice for Holocaust Remembrance day at Landestheater Detmold and Theater Hagen, I’m thrilled to be working with these theaters!
I […]
Last night, I sang from Letters to Fred by Bracha Bdil. Thanks to Staatstheater Darmstadt for supporting this epic 40 minute song cycle, and for the opportunity to tell Fred’s story. I am thrilled to announce that I will be singing the full work next season at Theater Hagen, thanks to new […]
From a “Letters to Fred” review:
“We are witnessing in real time similar events to those that occurred in Germany 90 years ago. This work, like all other stories from the Holocaust, should serve as a stark warning to all of us that the horrors will never be a thing of the past unless we keep […]
![Screenshot from the Lippische Landes-Zeitung website. On the left a close-up of a dark-haired woman with red lipstick (Megan Marie Hart, photo: Jo Herzberg, CC BY-SA 4.0), on the right yellow and white text on dark gray in German:
Erinnern & Gedenken
Darmstädter Theater vertont „Letters to Fred“ und erinnert an Detmolder Familie Herzberg
Das Stück feierte schon Ende Januar anlässlich des Holocaust-Gedenktages seine Premiere. Angestoßen wurde das Auftragswerk der Komponistin Bracha Bdil durch die Initiative von Sängerin und Detmolder Theaterpreisträgerin Megan Marie Hart und Joanne Herzberg.
26. Februar 2025
[The piece celebrated its premiere at the end of January on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The commissioned work by composer Bracha Bdil was initiated by singer and Detmold Theater Prize winner Megan Marie Hart and Joanne Herzberg.
February 26, 2025]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l5ufs2r5mpytns2fsmg52ujz/bafkreicpvcjjtl4gldwnxdahnbnpo2kssmmsbd6nkctujrmufhviw3aw44)
Screenshot from the Lippische Landes-Zeitung website. On the left a close-up of a dark-haired woman with red lipstick (Megan Marie Hart, photo: Jo Herzberg, CC BY-SA 4.0), on the right yellow and white text on dark gray in German: Erinnern & Gedenken Darmstädter Theater vertont „Letters to Fred“ und erinnert an Detmolder Familie Herzberg Das Stück feierte schon Ende Januar anlässlich des Holocaust-Gedenktages seine Premiere. Angestoßen wurde das Auftragswerk der Komponistin Bracha Bdil durch die Initiative von Sängerin und Detmolder Theaterpreisträgerin Megan Marie Hart und Joanne Herzberg. 26. Februar 2025 [The piece celebrated its premiere at the end of January on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day. The commissioned work by composer Bracha Bdil was initiated by singer and Detmold Theater Prize winner Megan Marie Hart and Joanne Herzberg. February 26, 2025]
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Thrilled to have another article about „Letters to Fred“ – #NeverAgainIsNow!
”At the center of the commissioned work is Fred Herzberg, who was rescued by a Kindertransport to England in 1939, while his parents and sister were murdered in Auschwitz.“ […]
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Ich freue mich sehr über einen weiteren Artikel über „Letters to Fred“ –#NeverAgainIsNow!
„Im Zentrum des Auftragswerks steht Fred Herzberg, der 1939 durch einen Kindertransport nach England gerettet wurde, während seine Eltern und seine Schwester in Auschwitz ermordet wurden.“
Vielen Dank […]
“Democracy has to continue.”
— Edgar W. “Jeff” Jefferies,
Roselands Pill, England,
August 12th 1940
(From Bracha Bdil's Letters to Fred: A Portrait of the Herzberg Family During the Holocaust – III. Letters from Jeff, No.3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvxOatnH04&t=1009s
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LETTERS TO FRED
„Zwei Liedprogramme an einem Tag spannten einen Bogen von Lebenslust, Poesie und gerechtem Zorn am Vormittag zu trauerndem Andenken am Abend. Zwei Freundinnen erlebten dies gemeinsam, Megan Marie Hart auf den Bühnen, Joanne Herzberg im Publikum.“
❤️ Vielen Dank, lieber […]
LETTERS TO FRED: A Portrait of the Herzberg Family During the Holocaust
Song Cycle by Bracha Bdil
The terrible brutality of the Holocaust is so incomprehensible in its extent that it can only be understood on the basis of individual fates. This song cycle quotes from letters to the only […]
Report about Letters to Fred on hr2 Kultur.
www.hessenschau.de/kultur/80-jahre-befreiun...
#BrachaBdil #LettersToFred #Darmstadt #Hessen #hr2
Two musical scores on a piano. The one on the left is closed, showing the title page with the printed text: Bracha Bdil Letters to Fred Song Cycle for Soprano & Piano handwritten in pencil is the addition A portrait of Fritz Herzberg during the Holocaust The score on the right is opened, it reads Shema 5 Poems of Primo Levi Primo Levi, Simon Sargon 1. Shema
Happy and exhausted, two recitals in two cities on the same day – done!
It was very moving. (No pun intended, but not lost on me either.)
#operaSinger #Darmstadt #Detmold #BrachaBdil #LettersToFred #SimonSargon #5PoemsOfPrimoLevi
Promo for the world premiere of Letters to Fred, Sunday, Januar 26 2025 at Staatstheater Darmstadt.
I wish German theaters would use the #fediverse already! But until they do, we have to make do with #meta
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#LettersToFred #WorldPremiere […]
