In today’s edition of Sunday Music Show we’ll be listening to the children’s opera Brundibár, performed by children at the wartime Jewish ghetto in Terezín. Video of Brundibár clip from Terezín The ...

It is quite possible that you will have heard Hans Krasa's famous children's opera Brundibar, but it is less likely that you will have heard it performed in English. Naxos has now come out with a ...

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 ...

Conducted by the son of a Terezín survivor, WNO Youth Opera gave their all in an overwhelming production of Hans Krása’s children’s opera Welsh National Opera saved its mightiest blow, as touching and ...

The Czech Krása had composed this half-hour fairy tale about two children who get the better of a thieving organ-grinder, with the help of a bird, a cat, a dog and a minor army of street urchins, in ...

On that day, Eichmann, surrounded by henchmen from high command in Berlin and Prague, welcomed four gentlemen from the International Red Cross. They had come to report on conditions in what the Nazis ...

Brundibár, an opera written by Czech composer Hans Krása, was performed multiple times by the children of the Theresianstadt concentration camp during WWII. Now the opera will be staged for the first ...

Hans Krása’s children’s opera, conducted by Tomáš Hanus, whose mother was among those who performed it in Terezín concentration camp, brings WNO’s Freedom season to an emotional end Hans Krása’s ...

The Santa Barbara Youth Opera, in collaboration with Ojai Youth Opera and the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony, will present a fully-staged production of Brundibár, Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása’s ...

The children’s opera Brundibar brought laughter and music into the lives of Czech Jews imprisoned by the Nazis in the Czech Republic. The music had been smuggled inside the suitcase of composer Hans ...