Performance

VenueRoyal Lyceum Theatre
Other spaces: Garage Theatre
TownEdinburgh
CountyEdinburgh
From16th August 2019
To16th August 2019
When19:00, 22:00
What is currently on at Royal Lyceum Theatre (V604)

Forget Me Not

T0652288305
In the company of Barrie Kosky, Artistic Director of Komische Oper Berlin, and singers Alma Sade and Helene Schneiderman, step back into the tragedy and tongue-in-cheek wit of a forgotten genre: Yiddish operetta. Born among Jewish communities in 19th-century Eastern Europe, Yiddish operetta developed a distinctive repertoire and style all its own. It became the music of a people deprived and oppressed, then crossed the Atlantic to take New York by storm in the 1880s. Drawing on stage works and films from the 1880s to the 1930s, Kosky has assembled Forget Me Not, a beguiling collection of sensuous songs by star authors and composers from Eastern Europe, including Joseph Rumshinsky, Alexander Olshanetsky, Sholom Secunda and the 'Yiddish Shakespeare' Abraham Goldfaden. Kosky leads this intimate soiree toasting these barely known masterpieces - a memorial to creators lost in the Holocaust and earlier pogroms, and a blazing celebration of the richness of Jewish culture.


Archive :: production:T0652288305, opera or operetta:S0742442810, venue:V604

Yiddish Operetta Songs from Warsaw to Broadway

Sung in Yiddish with English supertitles. Edinburgh International Festival

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Company

Company Komische Oper Berlin
Conductor Barrie Kosky
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