Event | The Pianist | |||||||||||||||||||
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Venue | Belvoir Street Theatre, Surry Hills, NSW | |||||||||||||||||||
Umbrella Event | Sydney Festival 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||
First Date | 16 January 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||
Opening Date | 16 January 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||
Last Date | 27 January 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||
Dates Estimated | No | |||||||||||||||||||
Status | Professional | |||||||||||||||||||
World Premiere | No | |||||||||||||||||||
Description | In September 1939, concert pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman was midway through a performance of Chopin's Nocturne in C Sharp Minor for Warsaw Radio when the Nazis pulled the power. Six years later, after an infernal odyssey of survival during which he saved his sanity by playing silently on a tabletop every day, Szpilman returned to Warsaw Radio and completed his recital.
His memoir, The Pianist, is the story of those six years (and served as inspiration for the 2002 Academy Award® winning film of the same name). Half a century after the memoir was written another great concert pianist, the i |
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Description Source | Programme | |||||||||||||||||||
Primary Genre | Music Theatre | |||||||||||||||||||
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Play with Music
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Music
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Text Nationality | Poland | |||||||||||||||||||
Production Nationality | Australia | |||||||||||||||||||
Event Status | Completed | |||||||||||||||||||
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Event Identifier | 78567 | |||||||||||||||||||
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