The
“Diary of Anne
Frank” opera will return to Thailand for 2 exclusive
performances only. The Opera Siam in cooperation with the Embassy of Germany
and the Embassy of Israel will bring back the deeply memorable opera, composed
by Grigori Frid, on January 26-27, 2017 @
Bangkok Art
and Culture Center (BACC).
Based on an original diary of a German-Jewish
girl under Nazi occupation, Anne Frank was hiding with her family in an attic
in Amsterdam from July 1942 until their arrest in August 1944. On her 13th birthday, Anne Frank was given a
diary in which she described her everyday life, what she saw, her different
moods and emotions, her fear and loneliness.
In the 60-minute performance, her emotional pressure, profound thoughts,
moral power and unbending will to live, hope for freedom and more humanity
unfolds. Special attention is dedicated
to the characters who appear in Anne’s monologues but not in person: her
father, her sister Margot and friends.
Anne was eventually transferred to the
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she eventually died of typhus in
February or March of 1945, just weeks before the camp was liberated in
April. Her diary has become one of the
most powerful memoirs of the Holocaust.
In June 1999, Time magazine included Anne
Frank in the “Heroes & Icons” section of their special edition titled “Time
100: The Most Important People of the Century”.
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