Traces of the White Rose | Britten Pears Arts

The vibrant and thoughtful SANSARA choir tells the powerful story of five students and a professor who stood up to Nazism and paid with their lives.

Munich, 1942: war rages across Europe and Hitler reigns with terror. Opposition to the regime risks imprisonment, deportation and even death. To resist would take incredible courage: there were some willing to take that risk.

SANSARA presents a sequence of words and music telling the story of the White Rose resistance. Powerful choral music by British and German composers is interspersed with readings from the letters, diaries and pamphlets of the White Rose in vivid new translations by students from the University of Oxford’s White Rose Project.

The project exists both as a live performance and a podcast series.

We’re delighted to welcome SANSARA back for our Britten Weekend, following their extraordinary Residency development within our Compassionate Communities programme.

Group of men and women wearing black, standing in front of a church. — Sansara Choir
Credit: Matthew Johnson Photography

a deeply moving combination of penetrating research and compelling spoken words with imaginatively selected, haunting and dramatic music which left the audience spellbound until long after the final chords had faded away
Simon Carrington

General booking opens on Saturday 16 August at 10am.

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