Works by Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman, Robert (Bob) Hanf, Robert Kahn, Hans Krieg, Leo Smit and Rosy Wertheim

Tuesday 28 January 2025 7:00 – 9:00 pm
To be held at a central London venue

Shelley Katz, conductor
Katerina Mina, soprano

Inquiries: here

FPS Home Away From Home

Saturday 22 February 2025 6:30 – 7:45 pm 
Trinity Church

15 Nether St, London N12 7NN

Shelley Katz, conductor
Adaya Peled, soprano

Booking: admin@fps.org

£40 suggested donation per person including wine and cheese

all profits going towards FPS building fund

Saturday 29 March 2025
International Opera Foundation, Belgrade

Shelley Katz, conductor
Marija Jellic, soprano

Monday 28 April 2025
Wiener Holocaust Library, London

Shelley Katz, conductor
Adaya Peled, soprano

Dr Barbara Warnock, presentor

Revealing Suppressed Culture: Lost Histories in the Archives of The Wiener Holocaust Library

In this talk, Dr Barbara Warnock, Senior Curator and Head of Education at The Wiener Holocaust Library in London, will explore some of the traces and records of culture suppressed during the Nazi era that are contained in the Library’s extensive archives. Founded in 1934 in Amsterdam as an anti-Nazi organisation and based in London since 1939, The Wiener Holocaust Library is the world’s oldest and Britain’s largest archive of document on the Nazi era and the Holocaust. The Library’s archives include precious collections relating to art, photography and culture labelled as ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis including Peter Kien’s original libretto for Der Kaiser von Atlantis oder der Tod dankt ab (The Emperor of Atlantis, or Death Abdicates), written in Theresienstadt camp and ghetto, an anti-Nazi opera composed by Victor Ullmann; artworks by Fred (Fritz) Kormis, a Jewish sculptor and printmaker ordered to stop working by the Nazi regime in 1933, and the powerful portrait photography of Gerty Simon, who was forced into exile early in the Nazi era. The Wiener Library’s archives also contain vital records of Jewish cultural life in ghettos, such as Philipp Manes’ diaries and journals from Theresienstadt. The talk will reveal the stories of these artworks and records, and examine the vital role of archives in preserving suppressed culture.

Booking: Info@symphonova.com

Past Events: 

Wednesday 6 November 2024 6:30 – 7:30 pm
St Richard’s Catholic College
Ashdown Rd, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1SE

Shelley Katz, conductor
Adaya Peled, soprano

Saturday 9 November 2024 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Mansfield Christian Community Centre
1 Woodhouse Road, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, NG18 2AD

Shelley Katz, conductor
Adaya Peled, soprano

Booking: Entrance Free. Email to reserve your seat: mansfieldcommunitycentre@cogop.org.uk

Saturday 30 November 2024 5:00 – 6:00 pm
Forbidden Music Regained Festival
Amsterdam Conservatory

Shelley Katz, conductor
Channa Malkin, soprano

Sunday 1 December 2024: Amsterdam Conservatory – Workshop for conductors + composers