FULL Come To Me in Dreams (Lori Laitman) Cleveland OH 2004 Sanford Sylvan, Megan Tillman, Fenlon Lamb, Sarah Renea Rucker

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Come To Me in Dreams  
• Composer: Laitman Lori   
• Libretto: David Bamberger    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: The Ohio Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio  
• Recorded: June 2004
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Sanford Sylvan, Megan Tillman, Fenlon Lamb, Sarah Renea Rucker
• Conductor:   
• Orchestra: Instrumental Ensemble  
• Stage Director: David Bamberger  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Izzy Einsidler  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Lori Laitman  
• Date Published: 2017  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Created by stringing together 15 of Laitman’s songs, David Bamberger tells the story of a Holocaust survivor. The action takes place largely in the imagination of The Survivor, although for him it is the early 1950s.  He survived the Holocaust and escaped from Europe.  Lost to him were his older Child, a daughter, who was murdered by the Nazis in Terezin, and His Wife, who died in a different camp.  Her death came after giving birth to their second daughter, who was eventually reunited with her father.  The Survivor has never discussed the events of the Holocaust with her, but does so at the climax of the opera with the touching “Both Your Mothers.”

  Although the plot deals specifically with the Holocaust, it is really an opera about accepting loss and moving forward, and therefore can be performed in varied forms of programming.

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