Violon de Rothschild, Le 1996

1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich completes the orchestration, but in 1948 is advised to suppress the opera, during Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans". Jewish motifs enter Shostakovich's own work.

Cast:

Sergei Makovetsky
Shostakovich 

Dainius Kazlauskas
Benjamin Fleischmann 

Tõnu Kark
The Minister 

Tarmo Männard
Moishe Vainberg 

Tamara Solodovnikova
Aunt Nadezhda 

Kaljo Kiisk
 

• Rothschild's Violin