After the collapse of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of thousands of Jewish people from Eastern Europe migrated to Germany. They had Jewish ancestry but it was in Germany that they had their first opportunity to learn about and practise their religion.
Julia Lwowski is one of these migrants and also an Opera Director. In Germany she has worked on productions of Wagner’s Das Rheingold. Join Julia and Australian-Jewish producer David Hecht as they explore this group of people with a unique identity.
Readings by Uwe Westphal, Ana Gomez-Carrillo and Nikolai Frank
Special thanks to:
Roman Lemberg - advisor on all things Wagnerian,
Ralf Meier - immigration expert at the German Ministry for Education and
the Ruhrtriennale festival and the MusicAeterna Orchestra from Perm, Russia conducted by its musical director Teodor Currentzis, for permission to use recordings of Das Rheingold.