Brundibár
Opera
Nov. 24, 2009: Lou Dobbs for president? No 'Miracle on 34th Street' on Thanksgiving? Bodyguards at the Taj Mahal?...to review the audience," Sarah Bryan Miller reported at STLtoday. com/CultureClub, the one at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis' production of Brundibar "deserves a word of appreciation: they were silent and attentive, almost glued to the... In this article: Lou Dobbs, Thanksgiving, Angelina Jolie, Miracle on 34th Street, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Tax, Blanche DuBois, Hollywood Reporter, Brundibar, and Tennessee Williams |
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | November 16, 2009
Nazi camp forged children's opera
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
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 10, 2009
'Light' ballet traces the journey of Holocaust victim
...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
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thestar.com | November 05, 2009
Critics' choice
...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
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Brundibar
...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
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | November 03, 2009
'Brundibar' children's opera a pet project of 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
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San Francisco Chronicle | October 16, 2009
Berkeley Rep takes spotlight as Broadway star
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
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New York Times | October 07, 2009
Movie Review 'As Seen Through These Eyes': Art From the Holocaust, Behind the Barbed Wire
...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
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New York Post | September 19, 2009
Required reading
...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
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch | September 17, 2009
Symphony's free concert heralds new season
...(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
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boston.com - Latest music news | August 13, 2009
Playing with a visual context
...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
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Brundibár is a children's opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, originally performed by the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia. The name comes from a Czech colloquialism for a bumblebee.
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