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‘A Melancholy Beauty’: Operatic Holocaust story has a happy ending
(Marc Apter) - Soloist Neli Andreeva performs in “A Melancholy Beauty” at the Kennedy Center.
Georgi Andreev’s oratorio “A Melancholy Beauty” relates that rare Holocaust story: one with a happy ending.
It had its world premiere Tuesday at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in a compelling performance by the National Philharmonic and members of seven U.S. and Bulgarian choral ensembles under the baton of Henry H. Leck.
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In a pre-oratorio program of music performed by the choirs that would later form the large chorus for Andreev’s work, the brief, sweetly devotional “Whosoever Saves a Single Life” (another world premiere, by oratorio soloist Osborne) was beautifully rendered by the fine New York-based ensemble Khorikos.
Banno is a freelance writer.
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