Her fate was shared by many Jewish artists under the National Socialists: Magda Spiegel, born in Prague in 1887, left Dusseldorf to join the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 1917, rising quickly to stardom as a dramatic contralto. Contemporaries praised her as one of the greatest operatic voices - until she was publicly denounced in 1935, dismissed and persecuted, before being murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.
This documentary concert looks back on this great German singer's life, persecution and cruel death with songs and arias that Magda Spiegel used to love singing, along with original quotes, visual and audio documentation, with works by composers including Max Bruch, Hindemith, Gideon Klein, Schubert, Verdi and Wagner.
