GEGEN DAS VERGESSEN
Gedenkkonzert

Winterberg:
TURMMUSIK (Uraufführung)
Barber:
MUTATIONS FROM BACH
Mitglieder des Philharmonischen Orchesters Hagen

Bdil:
LETTERS TO FRED
Sopran: Megan Marie Hart
Klavier: Giacomo Marignani

🗓️ 27. Januar
🕢 19:30
📍 Kunstquartier Hagen
🎟️ https://theaterhagen.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=11920
ℹ️ https://www.theaterhagen.de/veranstaltung/gegen-das-vergessen-1909/0/show/Play/

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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 friend Hilda.

Letters to Fred: A Portrait of the Herzberg Family During the Holocaust
Music by Bracha Bdil, letters compiled and edited by Megan Marie Hart for Jo Herzberg
Mathias Mönius on Piano

🗓️ 25 Januar
🕦 11:30
📍 Landestheater Detmold, großes Haus
ℹ️ https://www.landestheater-detmold.de/de/programm/letters-to-fred/41792455

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LETTERS TO FRED
Briefe an Fred – Ein Porträt der Familie Herzberg während des Holocaust
Liederzyklus für Sopran & Klavier von Bracha Bdil (auf Englisch)

Sopran: Megan Marie Hart
Klavier: Mathias Mönius

🗓️ 25. Januar
🕦 11:30
📍 Landestheater Detmold, großes Haus
🎟️ https://landestheater-detmold.reservix.de/p/reservix/event/2490931
ℹ️ https://www.landestheater-detmold.de/de/programm/letters-to-fred/41792455

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LETTERS TO FRED

For Holocaust Remebrance Day I’m going to perform “Letters to Fred” by Bracha Bdil in North Rhine-Westphalia. Sunday at Landestheater #Detmold and Tuesday in #Hagen at the Kunstquartier.
Please come and see this important work—the letters are beyond, they simply must be heard.

📍 LandestheaterDetmold
🗓️ Jan. 25
🕦 11:30
📍 Kunstquartier Hagen
🗓️ Jan. 27
🕢 19:30

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Zum Holocaust-Gedenktag: Liederzyklus »Letters to Fred« in Detmold und Hagen
Redaktion

Die israelisch-jüdische Komponistin Bracha Bdil hat mit »Letters to Fred« / »Briefe an Fred« einen besonderen Liederzyklus komponiert. Das vom Staatstheater Darmstadt in Auftrag gegebene Werk, das die wahre Geschichte der Detmolder Familie Herzberg erzählt, wird zum diesjährigen Holocaust-Gedenktag gleich zwei Mal aufgeführt.  […]

https://opernmagazin.de/zum-holocaust-gedenktag-liederzyklus-letters-to-fred-in-detmold-und-hagen/

“The political climate throughout Western society in 2025 makes us feel the cold of the past as we face the reality that the most admired democracy is sliding into fascism. We are witnessing in real time similar events to those that occurred in Germany 90 years ago.”

From a “Letters to Fred” review.

https://critiquebrainz.org/review/50af802a-283a-467e-9cb8-97d3b4ee2200

#LettersToFred #BrachaBdil #songCycle #HappyNewYear2026

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 Intendant Søren Schuhmacher, our former Operndirektor in Darmstadt!

edit: see https://mastodon.social/@meganmariehart/114545624898642376

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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 fighting to keep them there.”

https://critiquebrainz.org/review/50af802a-283a-467e-9cb8-97d3b4ee2200

#BrachaBdil #SongCycle #LettersToFred #HolocaustRemembrance #NeverAgain #Mazeldon #Review