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Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra | Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin

Sat, Oct 21

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Belle Mehus Auditorium, Bismarck ND

Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, tells the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) during World War II who smuggled the score and performed Verdi’s Requiem 16 times while experiencing the depths of human degradation.

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Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra | Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin
Bismarck-Mandan Symphony Orchestra | Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin

Time & Location

Oct 21, 2023, 7:30 PM CDT

Belle Mehus Auditorium, Bismarck ND, 201 N 6th St, Bismarck, ND 58501

About the event

The signature concert of The Defiant Requiem Foundation,, tells the story of the courageous Jewish prisoners in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terezín) during World War II who performed Verdi’s Requiem while experiencing the depths of human degradation. With only a single smuggled score, they performed the celebrated oratorio sixteen times, including one performance before senior SS officials from Berlin and an International Red Cross delegation. Conductor Rafael Schächter told the choir, “We will sing to the Nazis what we cannot say to them.” Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín

is a concert-drama that was conceived and created by Foundation President, Maestro Murry Sidlin. It combines the magnificent music of Verdi with video testimony from survivors of the original Terezín chorus and footage from the 1944 Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt. The performance also includes actors who speak the words of imprisoned conductor Rafael Schächter and others.Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín

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