Jewish Space Lasers is a one-hour theatrical piece structured around the songs and stories of musicians killed during the Holocaust and examining the place of Jewishness in classical music. This cabaret-style performance interweaves personal reflections through stand up comedy, monologues adapted from historical documents, art song by Holocaust composers, new arrangements of Yiddish folk tunes, and pieces from the Germanic canon such as Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder. The complexity of antisemitism, Holocaust awareness, and Jewish identity in classical music, not to mention richness and vividness of our source material, invite this three-dimensional storytelling format that engages audiences to connect with difficult subject matter in a light-hearted way. 


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Join us at the Opera America Conference on May 18th at the New Works Pitch Session!