Zofia Posmysz

Continuing its tradition of unearthing little-known 20th-century operas, the Bregenz Festival presented the first staged production of Polish-Russian composer Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Passenger” in 2010. Written in 1967/68, the opera relates the chance meeting of a former concentration camp guard and one of her former inmates on an ocean liner years after the war.

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A student strikes up a friendship with a young uneducated construction worker to gather material for her work about worker hotels.

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A troublemaker returns to his home village, reigniting friendship with his former teacher and looking to atone for his wrongdoings.

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A German woman on a ship returning to Europe notices a face of another woman which brings recollections from the past. She tells her husband that she had been an overseer in Auschwitz during the war, but she has actually saved a woman's life.

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