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Inspired by the original, unredacted texts of the diary, Loose Tea Music Theatre commissioned the chamber opera Singing Only Softly by composer Cecilia Livingston, Librettist Monica Pearce and Creator Alaina Viau. This chamber opera voices Anne Frank as a fully formed young woman, describing her experiences, while discovering herself, her sexuality, her body, and her relationship with her mother which was originally removed from her story. Singing Only Softly explores a more nuanced character than the one that is presented in the redacted diary: not Otto Frank’s flattening of his daughter into the innocent child of The Diary of a Young Girl, but Anne’s own complex self-awareness and self-representation. This film premieres a new section to the opera 'The Weight of the Book' that has not been seen on stage before.
Special Thanks to Julia Schabas and Keiko Laroque
Creative Team
- Alaina Viau, Director and Filmmaker
- Partick Hagarty, Filmmaker
- Cecilia Livingston, Composer
- Monica Pearce, Librettist
- Alaina Viau, Concept and Development
- Keiko Laroque, Assistant
Performers
- Sara Schabas, Anne Frank
- Cheryl Duvall, Piano
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