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Article: Die weisse Rose: Matthew Zadow (Hans Scholl) and Marta Ewa Matulewicz (Sophie Scholl) in the White Rose Project production.(TORONTO)
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- Opera Canada
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- March 22, 2005
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Enterprising producer/director Judy Kopelow presented, under the auspices of the White Rose Project, German composer Udo Zimmermann's melancholy 1967 opera, Die weisse Rose (White Rose), as part of Holocaust Education Week, but the subject matter was not about the Jewish experience. Rather, the focus was on a pair of incredibly brave and incredibly young righteous Gentiles. The libretto, by Wolfgang Willaschek, is an expressionistic and poetic portrait of the last hours of brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl, based on fragments of their diaries. Both in their early twenties, they were guillotined by the Nazis in 1943 because they belonged to the Munich University ...