![]() ![]() In their hunger for freedom and innovation, Anna recognises her own desire to be independent and free herself from the stifling straitjacket of her family’s expectations. Staid bourgeois morality is to make way for fire and passion. He and his friends form a collective of iconoclastic writers, painters and composers who seek to usher in a new era in art and literature. Things are completely different for her brother Willem, who by dint of his gender is given every opportunity to develop his talent as an artist. ![]() It’s the late nineteenth century – a time when women are supposed to be wives and mothers and can only appear in public with a male chaperone. Her father, though a great lover of the arts, only allows her to use her beautiful voice at home. ![]() Singing is her passion, but for someone from her milieu a woman pursuing a career as a singer is inconceivable. Anna Witsen grows up in an affluent family in Amsterdam. ![]()
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