Kaddish Oriya & Ghetto Terezin

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After Oriya Ricardo, a young woman full of light and joy, who loved music and loved to dance, was murdered at the Nova Music Festival, her mother Hannie Ricardo realized that the work “Kaddish”, which she had begun composing months before October 7th in memory of composers from Ghetto Theresienstadt who perished in the Holocaust, would be dedicated to her daughter Oriya.

Hannie Ricardo is a musician and historian who has been performing the works of composers from Ghetto Theresienstadt for decades. Jewish history is extremely tumultuous – before WW2, Hannie’s Great-grandfather, Benjamin Israel Ricardo, was the Rabbi at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam; his family was almost decimated at Auschwitz. Hannie interwove Sabbath songs that her grandfather had taught her as a child in the “Kaddish”, thus forming a connecting line between the Holocaust and the massacre of October 7th, a tragedy that chillingly echoed the horrors of the Holocaust.

Music was a source of strength for the composers and musicians incarcerated in the ghetto, giving them a reason to go on living and the stamina to survive another day. Hannie believes in the power of music and of cultural life to help one rise from the ashes. Her new work that will premiere on October 7, 2024, “Kaddish Oriya and Ghetto Terezin”, forms a link between past, present, and future. It expresses and faces the pain, in defiance of the growing antisemitism and as a way of battling it.

Hannie approached Beit Theresienstadt, an institution committed to perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust with a focus on the story of Ghetto Theresienstadt, suggesting that they jointly produce a project that would commemorate her daughter Oriya, her friends murdered with her at the Nova party, and the composers from Ghetto Theresienstadt.

The first part of the concert will be devoted to works for choir and for soloists, written mostly in the ghetto, while in the second part the Kaddish will be performed, written for soloists, choir, wind instruments, and timpani, in a world premiere.

Conductor: Talia Ilan | Soloists: Hannie Ricardo, Ariel Shapira – soprano , Shahaf Regev – baritone | Piano: Inbar Rothschild | Artistic stage management: Noemi Schlosser

The concert will be part of the battle against antisemitism and for increasing awareness of the Holocaust and the massacre of October 7, 2023.

Premiere Concert

The Opera House – The Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv
October 7 2024
6:29PM
One-year anniversary of the October 7 massacre

Jerusalem

A new date will be announced soon

Join us in an effort to raise world awareness of the 7/10 massacre and the fight against anti-Semitism. Your donation will help bring the story of Oriya and hundreds of other young people who were murdered at the party to the whole world.

Supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Israel