Highlights from ‘The Rosenbergs’
Sneak peek: Don’t miss this special concert performance of highlights from the new opera The Rosenbergs, which will be produced by BPT and the Brandeis Department of Theatre Arts next season.
Music by Joachim Holbek
Libretto by Rhea Leman
Music Direction by Cristi Catt
Directed by Professor Dmitry Troyanovsky
Sunday, April 10 at 4 p.m.
Brandeis University
Laurie Theater, Spingold Theater Center
It’s 1953, cold war U.S.A., and Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are accused of atomic espionage and have been sentenced to death. They are the parents of two small boys and yet they choose to die in the electric chair instead of declaring themselves guilty in order to receive a lesser punishment. Their case has been declared the case of the 20th century, and the cries from the famous political witch-hunt of USA 1950’s can still be heard and felt.