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Memory and Reckoning
and
The Property
are
supported by an Anonymous Donor and
Seymour H. Persky, with cosponsorship by Goldman,
Sachs & Co., Mr. and Mrs. Eric L. Hirschfield,
Joyce E. Chelberg, the Polish Cultural Institute New
York, Penelope and Robert Steiner, and the Consulate
General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago, with
additional support from the Katherine A. Abelson
Educational Endowment Fund.
FILM
Sunday, February 8, 2015, 11:00 a.m.
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State Street, Chicago
Passenger (Pasażerka)
1963, Andrzej Munk,
Poland,
62 minutes, 35mm
In Polish with English subtitles
A classic of Polish cinema, this film
is based on the same story that later
inspired Weinberg’s opera. There will
be a short talk before the screening.
Tickets are $11; $6 for Gene Siskel Film Center members, available online: siskelfilmcenter.org or at the Film Center box office lyricopera.org/memoryLyric Opera presentation of
The Passenger
is
generously sponsored by Richard P. and Susan Kiphart,
Sylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel, the Earl and Brenda
Shapiro Foundation, Sidley Austin LLP, Manfred and
Fern Steinfeld, and Helen and Sam Zell with additional
support from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute as part of
the Polska Music program.
Lyric Unlimited was launched with major catalyst
funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and receives major support from the Hurvis Family
Foundation.