Sonia Wieder-Atherton (Cello)
& Anna Gianforcaro (Vocals)
Children aged seven to twelve. Torn from their childhood. Anna Gianforcaro is their voice. And their poems dialogue with the cello.
TEXT / Poems by the children of Terezin – Here I saw no butterfly, published by the National Jewish Museum in Prague
CONCEPTION & CELLO
Fanny Ardant and Sonia Wieder-Atherton
VOICE
Anna Gianforcaro
A tale in two stages, “like freeze-frames, like incursions into time”: first Couperin’s Les leçons de ténèbres, or the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah.
Prophecy is the time of the future. Before the destruction and the tears: “we hear the song of the prophet who mourns, but the possibility that it won’t happen still exists”.