ERKKI-SVEN TÜÜR – talk with the resident composer of the Moravian Autumn 2015
and screening of his opera Wallenberg
Written in the style peculiar to the composer, Tüür’s opera Wallenberg portrays the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat sent to Budapest during the Nazi occupation, who saved tens of thousands of Jews from deportation to concentration camps, and later very probably fell victim to NKVD purges.
