Brundibár

Hans Krasa's "Brundibar" is a children's opera, a classic story of good overcoming evil. It was originally performed in a setting that today helps to symbolize evil: Theresienstadt, a Nazi concentration camp. Opera Theatre of St. Louis...

In this article: Petr Ginz, Hans Krasa, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, and Dog

...Center of Pittsburgh and other local institutions to organize events ranging from scholarly lectures to Hans Krasa's one-act children's opera "Brundibar (Bumblebee)." "It's a cornucopia, if you will, of different explorations of the Holocaust...

In this article: Washington, D.C and Texas

...St. Free) Czech composer Hans Krasa died six weeks shy of his 45th birthday in the Terezin concentration camp. His main legacy is Brundibar, a gorgeous, 30-minute children's opera about justice. It had 55 performances at the camp, to show...

In this article: Hans Krasa, Roy Thomson Hall, Montreal, Toronto, Chick Corea, and Charles-Marie Widor

...the history of the piece, depicting Hans Krasa and others who worked on the piece in Terezin working on Brundibar, from the first performance of Brundibar in Prague in 1941 all the way up to the Red Cross performance in 1944. Apart from...

In this article: Hans Krasa, Terezin, Tony Kushner, and Maurice Sendak

Search post-gazette.com: 'Brundibar' children's opera a pet project of Maurice Sendak Chicago Opera Theater staged "Brundibar" using costumes and a set by Maurice Sendak. Considering the buzz for Maurice Sendak these days, it might be...

In this article: Maurice Sendak, Chicago Opera Theater, Hans Krasa, Where the Wild Things Are, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, and School Library Journal

The Rep tries to package each move from Berkeley to New York according to the needs of the show, she adds. "Eurydice" and Kushner's "Brundibar," directed by Taccone, moved as co-productions with Yale Repertory Theatre and the Manhattan...

In this article: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Broadway, New York, Tom Hulce, Passing Strange, and Eurydice

...propaganda to demonstrate their humane treatment of prisoners. Playing the Cat onstage in a camp production of the children's opera "Brundibar," she was briefly distracted from her miserable circumstances. Dina Gottliebova Babbitt survived...

In this article: Maya Angelou and Josef Mengele

...concentration camp, near Prague, was supposedly the "good" camp, with Jewish artists and writers and musicians (it was where "Brundibar was performed by the children). But, still, it was a way station before Auschwitz. Separated from...

In this article: Leon Trotsky, Diego Rivera, Harvard, Frida Kahlo, and Amsterdam

...(Nov. 1). The Touhill also is the venue for a noteworthy production by Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Czech composer Hans Krasa's "Brundibar" on Nov. 19 and 21. Written and performed by occupants of the Nazi-occupied ghetto of...

In this article: St. Louis, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Chamber Chorus, St. Louis Abbey, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis

...together his life and where he was musically during this period, it fits. '' Krasa is known chiefly for the children's opera "Brundibar,'' which was often staged in Terezin. By contrast, the quartet, written in 1921, shows a composer...

In this article: Terezin, Hans Krasa, Eliska Kleinova, Tanglewood, Gideon Klein, and E mail