Is it right to make art out of the Shoah?
Elie Wiesel believed that "no one can now retell Auschwitz after Auschwitz"
As Holocaust Memorial Day approaches on Friday, here is the programme note I wrote for the world premiere of my friend Noah Max’s opera, A Child In Striped Pyjamas early this month.
It was a controversial opera for two reasons: first, because it is based on John Boyne’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, which is deeply controversial - upsetting for many pe…
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