The opera Brundibar has a terrible yet inspirational past: Written in 1938 by Jewish composer Hans Krasa and librettist Adolf Hoffmeister, it was famously performed by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp with a limited orchestra in 1943. On the surface a fairy tale about a brother and sister who overcome the evil organ grinder Brundibar and therefore earn the right to sing in the town square to earn money for milk for their ailing mother, the dramatized story carried a subtle anti-Nazi message to the denizens of... More >>>