TAMPA, Fla. — The Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, in collaboration with the Florida Holocaust Museum, is preparing for “Annelies,” a musical retelling of the Diary of Anne Frank — with the power of 130 voices — on March 1 and 2.

It’s a choral adaptation based on the diary kept by a young Jewish girl in hiding in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied Netherlands. All of Anne Frank’s family in hiding perished after being discovered, except her father.

Corinne Bach is the chorale soloist and feels the power of more than 100 voices move through her as she faces the group singing a kind of call and response song about what the little Jewish girl packed to go into hiding from the Nazis.

“It’s like a conversation,” Bach explained.

The longtime professional singer and performer grew up in a Jewish and Catholic household. “I went to a religious school which is a Yeshiva, and I also went to CCD,” said Bach.

Jewish religious doctrine is taught at a Yeshiva, and “CCD” stands for the “Confraternity of Christian Doctrine” — Catholic religious teaching.

Bach says the Diary of Anne Frank was required reading growing up, and now, reconnecting to it as an adult, she sees Anne’s innocence in the simple act of packing curlers to go into hiding.

“Because that’s what a teenager does,” Bach said.

Telling this story through song is another way Bach and the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay are helping to keep Anne’s Frank’s words alive.

And to keep Anne Frank’s hope alive.