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This enlightening program tells the little-known story of Kurt Weill, Max Reinhardt and Meyer Weisgal's operatic Jewish response to Hitler's Germany. It chronicles the fascinating history of the creation and production of the opera, "The Eternal Road," during the time when Nazi persecution of the Jews was spreading across Europe in the late 1930s. It is a story about an artistic quest to create an opera that reflected the plight of the Jews in the final days leading up to the Holocaust.