From Warsaw to Broadway: Yiddish operetta songs in the Komische Oper Berlin

About the Event

Alma Sadé, Helene Schneidermann and artistic director Barrie Kosky at the piano! With 'Farges mikh nit — don't forget me' the three artists revive a forgotten genre: Yiddish theatre.

At the beginning of the 20th century Eastern European authors and composers such as Joseph Rumshinsky, Alexander Olshanetsky, Sholom Secunda or the 'Yiddish Shakespeare' Abraham Goldfaden emigrated to the USA under the pressure of pogroms. Their songs are often about exile, loneliness and homesickness. 'Wherever you are — farges mikh nit! 'A quiet, a special evening.