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Description: Dear Erich - A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal
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A Jazz Opera by Ted Rosenthal
In wartime Germany and Chicago, a story of tragedy, love and redemption
Dear Erich was commissioned by New York City Opera and received it's world premiere January 9-13, 2019, at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City. Dear Erich was inspired by 200 newly discovered letters written in Germany between 1938 and 1941 by Herta Rosenthal to her son Erich, the composer's father. Dear Erich tells a refugee story for our times. How can a family cope as the walls of their nation's hatred close in around them? For those who escape, what lies ahead? Even in the land of the free
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