Organization

Conductor

Ana González

Stage director

Tomás Muñoz

Lighting designer

Others

Pequeños Cantores de la JORCAM

Fundación Juan March

Terezín: componer bajo el terror

Madrid

Spain

In 1942 Hans Krása was unable to bring the score of the opera Brundibár [The Bumblebee] to Terezín and had to rewrite it in the concentration camp. The work was performed there more than fifty times, helping to convey a sense of "normalcy" to the children. On this occasion, stage director Tomás Muñoz, alongside the opera, projects scenes from the Nazi propaganda documentary about Terezín—featuring the children who performed the work and would later be murdered—accompanied by music composed in the ghetto by other composers such as Viktor Ullman, Karel Svenk and Ilse Weber.

Pequeños Cantores de la JORCAM. Ana González, musical direction. Tomás Muñoz, stage direction

Brundibár, children's opera in two acts, with music by Hans Krása (1899-1944) and text by Adolf Hoffmeister (1902-1973). Terezín version (1943), piano score.

Concert from the series "Terezín: Composing under terror"
https://www.march.es/events/103331/

24 and 26 February 2021
Fundación Juan March, Madrid

Terezín: componer bajo el terror: Brundibár Krása

Public

Brundibar

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading