Trailer | Out of Darkness: Two Remain
Channel: The Atlanta Opera
Date: 2018-04-01

The actors, dancers, director, choreographer, and conductor of OUT OF DARKNESS: TWO REMAIN share the creative process behind this fully-staged World Premiere. 

Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer‘s moving two-act opera centers on Holocaust survivors visited by ghosts of their past. In Act I, Krystyna shares her gripping story of survival with a journalist, and is helped by the ghosts of Auschwitz who were inspired by her written lyrics. In Act II, Gad Beck is visited by his first true love, the poet Manfred Lewin, who perished in Auschwitz. As Manfred implores Gad to remember and celebrate their love, the painful truth of their stories and fates emerges. Based in part on the true stories of two Holocaust survivors: the Polish dissident Krystyna Zywulska (1914-1993) and the gay German Jew, Gad Beck (1923-2012).

General & Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun will direct. Presented in collaboration with Theatrical Outfit.