The Diary of Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank («Дневник Анны Франк» Dnevnik Anny Frank) is a monodrama in 21 scenes for soprano and chamber orchestra, composed in 1968 and first performed in 1972. The music and libretto are by Grigory Frid, after the eponymous 1942-1944 diary. Plot The 13-year-old Anne Frank is hiding with her family in a house in Amsterdam from July 1942 until their arrest in August 1944. She describes the people she sees, her different moods, and her emotions in her diary, telling of her pleasure at a birthday gift, or the sight of blue sky from her window, or her awakening attraction for Peter, but also her fear and loneliness. Description Frid wrote his own libretto for the work, structuring the original texts to provide a rich and varied portrait of Anne and the people around her in 21 brief scenes. The opera lasts one hour. Scenes Prelude Birthday School Conversation with Father Summons to the Gestapo The Hiding Place / The Bell Tower West At the Little Window I Was Told Despair Memory Dream Interlude Duet of Mr and Mrs Van Daan Thieves Recitative I Think of Peter On the Russian Front Razzia Loneliness Passacaglia Finale