Opera Birmingham is proud to present The Diary of Anne Frank by Russian composer Grigory Frid based on the text from the original diary written between 1942 and 1944.  This opera shares a moving self-portrait of a young girl, full of spirit and courage and an unending hope for freedom.

The Diary of Anne Frank is a monodrama for soprano and chamber orchestra (piano, bass, and percussion). The opera follows a teenaged Anne Frank as her family hides in a house in Amsterdam through their arrest by the Nazis.  She describes the people she sees and her emotions, celebrates a birthday and the blue sky she can see from her window.  She begins to develop feelings for Peter, the son of a family also hiding in the house, also expresses her fear and loneliness as her family is trapped.  The opera was composed in 1968 and consists of 21 brief scenes; originally written in Russian, the libretto was translated into English in 1991.

Kathleen Farrar Buccleugh, Soprano Lester Seigel, Music Director

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