Brundibár - LITTLE SINGERS OF JORCAM

Sat. 12 MAR / 19:30 H

Hans Krása
Children's opera in two acts

Little Singers of the JORCAM
Musical direction Ana González
Stage direction Tomás Muñoz

Duration 60 minutes
14 € y 16 €
6 € under 12 years old in any zone without additional discounts

Additional discounts with youth card. 20% discount + 5€ discount vouchers

Brundibár is a family opera sung entirely by a children's choir and composed by Czech composer Hans Krása. It was performed more than 50 times in the Terezin concentration camp, helping to convey a sense of normality to its residents.

The Czech Hans Krása composed Brundibár in 1938 but it was not premiered until the winter of 1942 in a Jewish orphanage in Prague. The composer was deported to the concentration camp of Terezin, a walled Czech city converted, in 1941, into a Jewish ghetto by the German National Socialist regime as a transit point to the Auschwitz camp. It was in the camp where the play was premiered again on September 23, 1943, since the regime used Terezin as an element of propaganda, to show an image of good treatment of Jewish prisoners.

In Terezin the play was performed 55 times with the help of the camp children and was an extraordinary success. In 1944 Hans Krása died in Auschwitz.
 

Artistic data:

LITTLE SINGERS OF THE JORCAM

Musical direction: Ana González
Stage and lighting direction: Tomás Muñoz
Pianist: Karina Azizova

Assistant musical director: Simón Drago
Singing teacher: María Jesús Prieto
Stage direction and props assistant: Cristina Martín Quintero
Choreography: Rafael Rivero
Projection design: Patricia Pérez de la Manga
Sound design: Ángel Colomé

SYNOPSIS

Brundibár (The Bumblebee) tells the story of siblings Aninka and Pepicek, who need to buy milk for their mother but have no money, so they decide to imitate Brundibár, the organ grinder. He is not willing to help them, nor to give them a place in the village square, so the brothers resort to the help of a sparrow, a cat, a dog and the rest of the village children to achieve their purpose.

The program is completed with a musical prologue by Viktor Ullmann, Ilse Weber and Karel Švenk, Czech composers who composed in Terezin and were murdered by the Nazis.

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