Opera

ANNE FRANK – An Opera in Two Acts (2016–2022)

Based on Anne Frank: “The Diary of a Young Girl” (Het Achterhuis). Libretto by Charles Kondek.

Anne Frank – the Diary of a Young Girl was a book I first read in Hebrew—I think it was a gift I received on my Bat Mitzvah—and I have carried that inauspicious-looking, gray-covered volume with me through the decades that followed. There was nothing inauspicious about the content of the book, however! I was gripped by it, written as it was by a young teenage girl who, at the onset of the diary, was just barely older than me.

BETWEEN TWO WORLD (THE DYBBUK) An Opera in Two Acts (1994-97)

Based on the play “Tsvishn tsvey veltn (Der dibek): a dramatishe Legende in fïr akten” by S. Ansky (Schloyme-Zanvl ben Aaron Hacohen Rappaport). Libretto by Charles Kondek.

Based on the play “Tsvishn tsvey veltn (Der dibek): a dramatishe Legende in fïr akten” by S. Ansky (Schloyme-Zanvl ben Aaron Hacohen Rappaport) Libretto by Charles Kondek Commissioned by the Lyric Opera of Chicago as part of the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists’ Brena & Lee Freeman Sr. Composer-in-Residence program Premiere Production: June 20,…