How did the Nazis manage to kill six million Jews and keep so much of the world in the dark? Part of the answer can be found when looking at the history of a concentration camp called Theresienstadt, ...
Like many fables, the story of “Brundibar” features innocent children, a wicked adversary, helpful animals, a moral to be learned and a happy ending.But underneath the plot of the allegorical children ...
FAIRBANKS — Rare is an opera without a tragic element, a rehashing of a dark piece of history or a tale of lovers scorned. In “Brundibar,” the tragedy is the setting in which the opera was originally ...
Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. For over a decade and a half, Brundibar was the ...
Bodhi Tree Concerts is a nonprofit organization that performs “random acts of kindness” through music and art. It will be presenting "Brundibar," a charming children’s opera with a devastating history ...
Dr. Juan F. LaManna, general director of Oswego Opera Theater, said that when he visited the site of Terezín, a World War II Nazi concentration camp, he “suffered.” Not only did he loathe the cruelty ...
An extraordinary production of the 1938 Czech-Jewish children’s opera Brundibár is taking place this month at Burlington City Hall Auditorium. While the opera tells a story of victory over oppression, ...
From September 1943 to September 1944, youngsters and adolescents taking part in the opera -- about needy children who triumph over Brundibar, the organ grinder -- were transported with thousands of ...
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The world will always have its bullies, whether they be neighborhood thugs or heads of state. When Hans Krása put those thoughts to music in his charming little children’s opera, ...
Nowhere was the legacy of music as a force of resistance clearer than in the various facilities that were used to detain and exterminate Jews during the Holocaust. Composer Hans Krása had completed ...