• Defiant Requiem: A Film Screening

    Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Muesum

    This 45-minute documentary highlights the story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant and courageous young Czech conductor who was arrested and sent to Terezín in 1941. He taught Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem...

  • Behind the Curtain: A Concert

    Temple Emanu-El Stern Chapel

    In preparation for ”Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín" on April 23, we invite you to immerse yourself in the music composed in Europe in the years leading up to World War II, including music by composers who would be imprisoned at Terezín. This concert is presented by Defiant Requiem conductor Ben Loeb, Defiant Requiem soprano...

  • Defiant Requiem Learning: Defiant Resistance

    Online on Zoom

    Delve deeper into the history of Terezin, the choice of the Verdi Requiem as the text of cultural resistance, and the vision behind the multi-media production “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at...

  • Defiant Requiem Learning: Tune Into Text

    Online on Zoom

    Delve deeper into the history of Terezin, the choice of the Verdi Requiem as the text of cultural resistance, and the vision behind the multi-media production “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at...

    Defiant Requiem Learning: Meet the Visionary

    Online on Zoom

    Delve deeper into the history of Terezin, the choice of the Verdi Requiem as the text of cultural resistance, and the vision behind the multi-media production “Defiant Requiem: Verdi at...

    Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín

    Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

    Experience the power of music as spiritual resistance in this concert drama about the performance of the Verdi Requiem by Jewish prisoners at Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (Terazín) during World War II. Presented on Yom HaShoah and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Terazín, this Dallas premiere features video and testimony by Terezin choir members...