Wallenberg is an opera by the Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tüür to a libretto by Lutz Hübner [de].
The plot is developed from events in Raoul Wallenberg's personal life.
[1][2] It premiered at the Estonian National Opera on June 1, 2007, directed by Dmitry Bertman.
Three guests whispering about the professional misses of the young Wallenberg.
You go to entrust your with the mission to Hungary, to save "as many Jews as possible".
The warnings of a lady, not to be exploited for foreign targets, can not stop Wallenberg.
Wallenberg must helplessly watch as running a German officers and his men the order of the Nazi regime, "thousands of Jews every day ..." 4.
The Plan I Wallenberg takes a promising tactic: Swedish protective passports "Will make Jews like Sweden" and keep them from being deported.
Railway Station II Wallenberg again meets the German officer.
A group of those saved by Wallenberg shows the fragility of their destiny in mind: "Life is not just being more than dead."
With relish, he shows the Wallenberg's limits of its possibilities in mind.
But an encounter with a woman he has rescued leaves him utterly disappointed in the meaning of his deeds.
She returns her protective passport to Wallenberg — so unbearably she feels the guilt to have survived "by chance".
Two Russian officers denied knowing the whereabouts of Wallenberg: "We do not have him!"
The other prisoners reacted with aggression to Wallenberg refusal to accept his role as savior.
Wallenberg hopes explanations to find about his destiny with three diplomats.
But these dismiss his doubts about the sense of the history as "child questions".
Future generations takes the heritage of Raoul Wallenberg.
And Ronald Reagan appoints him as an honorary citizen of the United States.
Wallenberg 2 takes the honors of the crowd with pride: "No trace of a doubt!"