One of the museum’s last popular projects was to unite tragic sites of adverse human experience, humanitarian crises with high world culture. In 2010, Michael Hunt, a UK stage director, and the orchestra and the company of Perm P.I. Tchaikovsky Academic Opera and Ballet Theater staged ;Fidelio’ an opera by L. Beethoven at the Memorial Museum, the former Perm-36 camp.
This experience underlay a new international project: In 2012 and 2013, meetings with staffs of museums, former Nazi camps: Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Buchenwald and Ravensbruck were held in Perm-36 museum, to develop the cooperation program. The project of staging ‘The Emperor of Atlantis’ by V. Ullmann at the Terezin Ghetto museum was started; the opera was written and prepared for the premiere in that ghetto nut never premiered because the musicians and the actors were sent to Auschwitz death camp.
The World Classics in National Sites of Commemoration
