HOLOCAUST VIOLINS EVOKE MOVING PREMIERE
BURLINGAME, CA—Historic violins spoke to us in song and left many in tears. A world premiere inspired by violins rescued from the Holocaust is as eloquent as it is disheartening. For the “Violins of Hope” instruments retrieved from the Nazis’ sites of their death-camp terror 75 years ago, librettist Gene Sheer and composer Jake Heggie have created a deeply moving song cycle with vivid imagery, in which the voices speaking to us were more from the surviving violins themselves than…