BENEATH THE ICE OF THE VISTULA

A Masterpiece Composed in the Eye of the Storm. This February, a Forbidden Love Defies a World Coming Apart.

A reclusive Jewish composer and his Polish cook form a volatile bond in the weeks leading up to the Nazi invasion, forcing them to confront art, love, and survival in a world on the brink of collapse.

Award-winning composer Inessa Zaretsky wrote the original solo cello score for Beneath the Ice of the Vistula, embodying both the play’s fractured emotional core and the creative struggle of Adam, its composer-protagonist. The cello becomes both narrator and witness, its resonant timbre evoking longing, despair, and resilience. Shifting between minimalism and dissonance, the music draws on echoes of prewar European melodies to conjure memory, loss, and endurance.