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  COMMENTS, OPINIONS AND CRITICAL RESPONSE

There have been over 150 reviews, articles and commentaries on The Dreyfus Trilogy and innumerable testimonials from distinguished personalities and institutions.

HEADLINES

"DREYFUS AFFAIR CONQUERS THE OPERATIC STAGE"
"OPERA WITH COMMITMENT FOR HUMANITY"
"AN IMPORTANT WORK AT THE RIGHT TIME"
"BERLIN APPLAUDS A POWERFUL OPERATIC MESSAGE"
"SUCCESS FOR ANTIRACISM"
"OPERA OF THE CENTURY"
"SENSATIONAL PREMIERE OF THE OPERA DREYFUS"
"DEEPLY IMPRESSED"
"WARNING FOR OUR TIMES."

'The Dreyfus Affair' is an Opera one must experience. The work is provoking. It persuades by its relevance. It is important. In George Whyte's libretto there are many glimpses into the future and into the past. He bites into the story he wants to tell and pulls out the bloody rags of truth.
Berliner Morgenpost, BERLIN

A total success paid tribute to a work of compassion which, by evoking one of the most monstrous cases of a miscarriage of justice, exhorts us to vigilance and racism. This musically dramatic rendering of the Dreyfus Affair has, without a doubt, attained its objective.
Opera International, PARIS

'The Dreyfus Affair' is an opera with such impact it brings to mind Alban Berg's 1925 masterpiece "Wozzeck". At the beginning , at Dreyfus' 1894 trial, when a crowd arrives clamoring for his death, the chorus tears through the stage's walls, which are paper, to chilling effect. The jagged edges - of French Society - remain in every scene.
Associated Press, NEW YORK

There are intimations throughout the opera of the horrors which German antisemitism led to 50 years after the Dreyfus case. Whyte's message is a compelling, uncompromising one. The applause from the first night audience at the Deutsche Oper was long, loud and unanimous
The European, LONDON

An intense spectacle, uncomplicated, effective, descriptive and passionate. The characters are powerfully driven to hatred, human relationships are abruptly severed, intimate feelings depicted with passion. A work of great talent and high professionalism.
Tribune de Genève, GENEVA

Alfred Dreyfus was the subject of a stirring Opera. In a montage of flashbacks, arguments and rage, angry mobs burst from the sides, and Emile Zola (bass Artur Korn) is again the conscience of a nation, singing lines from his scathing 'J'Accuse'. Attending the world premiere at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, Dreyfus' grandson Jean-Louis Levy wiped away tears as the story unfolded. The Deutsche Oper has created an impressive monument to Dreyfus.
Time Magazine, NEW YORK

In light of the growing racial intolerance throughout Europe this documentation is a painful reminder of the horrors of the past and constitutes a warning to future generations. Material of this kind brings this whole period into sharper focus and it helps us in our aim to promote understanding between people and nations and to prevent the recurrence of the horrors of the past.
Institute of Contemporary
History and Wiener Library,
LONDON

With your work you make a worthwhile contribution towards the awareness of young people to be on their guard against racism, hostility towards strangers and all kinds of obstructions to liberty which are more current than before in the European Year against Racism of 1997.
Prof. Dr Rita Süssmuth,
President of the
German Parliament

Impressive. The natural origins of hate to minorities which it stresses cause us to reflect about the appropriate preventive measures which should be used in order to fight against such a tendency.
Amon de Hartig
Supreme Court of Jerusalem

'The Accused' is a most magnificent and important work. Publications such as yours serve to remind the world of the utter injustice and futility of antisemitism.
Prof. Glenda Abramson,
Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, OXFORD

What a splendid piece of craftsmanship artistically, culturally historically, intellectually, politically and visually. Inter Nationes is to be congratulated upon the publication of this dramatic documentary focusing on the ever evil presence of racism and antisemitism.
International Theater
Institute of the United States

Impressive, in its inter-artistic conception, important in its historic humanistic message.
Prof. Jaacov Iram,
Bar Ilan University,
ISRAEL

The book is beautifully and sensibly produced and is a fitting compliment to its content, which, in its complete honesty, integrity and passion for truth, is a searing investigation into the martyrdom of modern Jewry exposing the utter absurdity, baseness, ignorance and vulgarity of common antisemiitism. Dr. Elisabeth Maxwell,
Remembering for the Future
,OXFORD

It is a timely reminder to all of us here in Europe and the rest of the world of the dangers of antisemitism and racism and the devastating effect that they have had on our culture and society. As the architects of the future "we must remember the past" and this publication is a great stimulus for our memory. Benjamin Leon, President
European Union of Jewish
Students, LONDON