I am honored and humbled to be spending Holocaust Remembrance Day with my dear friend Jo Herzberg, the daughter of two survivors.
Jo and I are travelling from Detmold to Hagen to share the story of her father Fred, and his family, who were murdered by the Nazis. Last Sunday, we presented “Letters to Fred” for the first time in his hometown of Detmold.
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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
#Holocaust #HolocaustGedenktag #LandestheaterDetmold #TheaterHagen #LettersToFred #BrachaBdil #SongCycle #NRW #operaSinger
“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
I also get to sing Ottavia & Drusilla (& Virtù) in L’incoronazione di Poppea, which will be my first time singing pre-Baroque music. Letters to Fred will be performed twice for Holocaust Remembrance day at Landestheater Detmold and Theater Hagen, I’m thrilled to be working with these theaters!
I hope that Letters to Fred will continue each year. Thanks to Jo Herzberg for trusting me with her dad’s letters.
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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
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Thrilled to have another article about „Letters to Fred“ – #NeverAgainIsNow!
”At the center of the commissioned work is Fred Herzberg, who was rescued by a Kindertransport to England in 1939, while his parents and sister were murdered in Auschwitz.“
Thank you so much, Sven Koch and Lippische Landes-Zeitung!
#LettersToFred #NeverAgain #HolocaustRemembrance #Detmold #Darmstadt #SongCycle #BrachaBdil #GiacomoMarignani #operaSinger #Mazeldon
Megan Marie Hart