An opera where villagers cast themselves as biblical refugees—then become the real thing.
Bohuslav Martinů's Greek Passion, which outlines a serious, very topical problem today, which is the position of refugees in a foreign, often hostile environment, is among the composer's most important works in terms of both ideology and art. The English libretto was based on the novel "Christ Recrucified" (1951) by the Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis, which takes place in the first decades of the 20th century in the harsh Greek countryside.
Direction
Stone's staging blurs congregation and audience.
Score
Martinů's tense, luminous orchestration.
Director
Davide Mancini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kazantzakis wrote the source novel after witnessing Greek civil war refugee crises; Martinů composed this in exile from Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia.
Stone's production moved the chorus into the audience, literally implicating spectators as the hostile village.
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