Voice and Piano
SKU:
BT.SCHBB6600212
Opera for
children. Composed by
Hans Krasa. Opera or
Operetta. Book Only. 74
pages. Bote & Bock
#SCHBB6600212. Published
by Bote & Bock
(BT.SCHBB6600212).
The
children's opera
Brundibar by Hans
Krása and
Adolf
Hoffmeister became
particularly famous
through the role it
played in the
concentration camp Terez
n. It helped to make the
tragic fate ofthe
prisoners more human and
bearable - of those who
played in the opera and
of those who went to see
the more than fifty
performances of it. The
famous first night of
Brundibár in Terez n
took place on September
23rd 1943 in thehall of
Magdeburg barracks.
'The children liked
the opera from the very
first. Both the music and
the text. Both are
childlike, the music is
modern and
melodious...'
- R. Franek, The
Terez n
School,Prague1965.
This edition
includes the original
Czech libretto by Adolf
Hoffmeister, plus an
English translation by
Joza Karas and a German
translation by Frank
Harders-Wuthenow and
Matthias Harre.
