Lost for years, the music of The Tiger Who Came to Tea author’s mother is heard again

Descendants of Julia Kerr gather for recital at Einstein’s summer house near Berlin where revived opera was set Albert Einstein throws a party at his lakeside house at which he presents to his guests his latest invention: a time machine. So opens the opera Chronoplan, started in the late 1920s by the composer Julia Kerr, who took the score with her when she fled Nazi Germany with her family in early 1933, its planned premiere having been halted following Hitler’s takeover. Continue reading...

By Kate Connolly in Caputh