Émigré is an oratorio composed by Aaron Zigman with lyrics by Mark Campbell and Brock Walsh.
"[4] In 1938, just days after Kristallnacht, two German Jewish brothers emigrate to Shanghai to escape mounting antisemitism in Germany.
The other, Josef, a doctor, visits a Chinese herbal medicine shop, where he meets and falls in love with Lina, a woman whose mother was murdered during the Rape of Nanjing.
[3] Émigré was hailed as "as a sign of the power of cultural exchange between China and the United States", according to the New York Times.
[8] Zachary Woolfe in a review for The New York Times called it "bland..."Émigré" is oratorio at its worst" and criticized the music, lyrics, pacing, and characterization.