The Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Yu Long.
In Sunday’s (7/9) Global Times (Shanghai), Luo Kang writes, “Co-produced by Chinese and US musicians, a 90-minute oratorio about Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Germany and heading to Shanghai in East China is set to debut in November, the show’s main composers announced recently at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. ‘Émigré,’ co-commissioned by conductor Yu Long, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, tells the story of two Jewish brothers who arrive in Shanghai as refugees in 1938 and go on to navigate their new life and establish a home and community there. The show is scheduled to premiere on November 17 at the Jaguar Shanghai Symphony Hall before its US premiere on February 29, 2024, at the David Geffen Hall of the Lincoln Center in New York. Written by award-winning composer Aaron Zigman with lyrics by Pulitzer Prize winning librettist Mark Campbell and songwriter Brock Walsh, the oratorio will be conducted by Yu…. In the late 1930s, over 30,000 Jews fled to Shanghai to escape the Nazis in Europe…. More than 400 of the Jewish refugees in Shanghai were musicians.”
