verdi_2002

Bill in The Defiant Requiem (Spring 2002)
The Defiant Requiem is a re-enactment and commemorative performance of Verdi's Requiem as it was performed late in WWII by inmates of the Nazi concentration camp at Terezin / Theresienstadt. The production was staged by the Portland Symphony and Opera Chorus under the direction of Murray Sidlin, who conceived the project.
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	Bill in chorus dress. The chorus and orchestra were dressed to suggest prison clothing.	The chorus bleachers. The hall recreated the room in the camp where the inmates performed.
	Re-creation of the camp's dilapidated piano, intentionally out of tune. The accompaniment switched between the piano and a regular orchestra.	Media equipment backstage. The performance was accompanied by multimedia presentation and actors who re-created inmates.
	Rehearsal	same as above
	Camp poster for The Magic Flute, another of the inmates' productions. The language is German, not just because it was a Nazi camp, but because that would have been the common or even native language of the inmates.	another camp concert poster; the posters were shown at the entrance to the performance area at the Portland production
	"the quartet that has won the hearts of all friends of music"	the poster for the Terezin Requiem performances
	The camp also had a children's choir (Kinderchor). The handwriting here is the old-style type, quintessentially German.