Directed from the piano by Lada Valešová, tenor Nicky Spence and the Navarra Quartet perform Pavel Haas’s song cycle Fata Morgana op.6 to mark Holocaust Memorial Day on 27 Janury 2021. Produced by Opera Holland Park and filmed by Simon Wall, the performance begins wih a reflection on remembrance from the author Howard Jacobson. Read about the programme here: operahollandpark.com/news/fata-morgana-programme.

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27 January each year in memory of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

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