FULL MAXIMILIEN KOLBE (Probst) Rimini 1988 Andrea Snarsky, Pierre Gerimon, Pierre Danais, Vincenzo Sanso
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Maximilien Kolbe
- Composer: Dominique Probst
- Libretto: Eugene Ionesco Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Auditorium del Meeting di Rimini, Italy
- Recorded: 1988
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Andrea Snarsky, Pierre Gerimon, Pierre Danais, Vincenzo Sanso
- Conductor: Gianfranco Rivoli
- Orchestra: Gruppo strumentale
- Chorus: Coro di Voci Bianche dell'Arcum
- Chorus Master: Paolo Lucci
Information about the Recording
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 1 Audio:2
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: mail.ru FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Maximilian Maria Kolbe (born Raymund Kolbe; Polish: Maksymilian Maria Kolbe; 1894–1941) was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active in promoting the veneration of the Immaculate Virgin Mary, founding and supervising the monastery of Niepokalanów near Warsaw, operating an amateur-radio station (SP3RN), and founding or running several other organizations and publications.
On 10 October 1982, Pope John Paul II canonized Kolbe and declared him a martyr of charity. The Catholic Church venerates him as the patron saint of amateur radio operators, drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, and prisoners. John Paul II declared him “the patron of our difficult century”. His feast day is 14 August, the day of his death.