Long Beach Opera
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It sounds a little weird, but the Long Beach Opera is staging its production of Grigori Frid's "The Diary of Anne Frank" in parking garages. "It seemed too convenient to do it in a regular space where we're so cozy," explains Andreas Mitisek, the opera's conductor and director. "It's a metaphor, in the widest sense, of alienation and of being uncomfortable." The hourlong opera stars soprano Ani Maldjian (pictured) as the indomitable Anne, and features Holocaust survivor Laura Hillman - one of the 1,100 Jews on Oskar Schindler's list - reading short excerpts from her memoir, "I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree." "Laura is a living example of what happened," the conductor says. "It makes it go beyond a regular performance."
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