Free Thursday Night: Opera Performance
Schedule
Thu, 26 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
225 W 2nd St, Davenport, IA, United States, Iowa 52801 | Davenport, IA
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We’ve got your Thursday nights covered—and they’re always freeAdmission is free from 5-8 p.m., with open galleries, food and drinks available, and something happening at 6 p.m. Come early for a drink or dinner, then enjoy a performance, a film, a conversation, or a chance to make art. Stay as long as you like, engage as much as you want.
🎟️5-8 p.m. | Free Admission
🍸5-8 p.m. | Drinks & Food Available, including seasonally rotating craft cocktails and menu, plus a full bar
🎵6 p.m. | Opera Performance
Join us for a special program with the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities and Violins of Hope. Opera Soprano Lily Arbisser - born and raised in the Quad Cities - along with French-Romanian pianist Dimitri Malignan and violist Deanna Petre will perform.
The Figge Art Museum and the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities co-host the recital “Remember me, Remember us,” a Missing Voices concert. Missing Voices, founded by French pianist Dimitri Malignan, sheds light on the irreparable loss of Jewish classical music composers during the Holocaust.
After a successful concert in Davenport last year at the German American Heritage Center, Dimitri is pleased to return once again with collaborator and Davenport native, the soprano Lily Arbisser, for this newly curated program. They are joined by violist Deanne Petre.
The program will celebrate the collection of 90 stringed instruments restored and curated by Violins of Hope, an organization started by father and son Amnon and Avshalom Weinstein with the intent to preserve instruments associated with the Holocaust.
Some of these instruments were played in unspeakable conditions. Some of them traveled with their owners out of ghettos and concentration camps to safety in British Mandatory Palestine—now Israel—and elsewhere. All are now lovingly stewarded by Violins of Hope.
The concert will feature music which would have been played in the ghettos and concentration camps—e.g. Mozart, Brahms, Puccini, Schumann—music that was suppressed—e.g. Mendelssohn, Mandyczewski, Chopin—and music by composers who were persecuted in World War II and the Holocaust—Dick Kattenburg, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Hans Gál, and Simon Laks.
Please join us!
Thursday Nights at the Figge are sponsored by Chris & Mary Rayburn
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