FULL Brundibar (Krasa) Madrid 2021 Fundación Juan March
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Brundibar
- Composer: Krása Hans
- Libretto: Adolf Hoffmeister, Translation into Spanish by Marcin Lukasz Mazur, José Carmelo Hernández and Marife Navarro Idoy Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
- Recorded: February 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Pequeños cantores de la JORCAM
- Conductor: Ana González
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Tomás Muñoz
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: FUNDACIÓN JUAN MARCH
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, essubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
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 play was performed there more than fifty times, helping to convey a sense of “normality” to children. On this occasion, the stage director Tomás Muñoz, as a prologue and epilogue to the opera, projects scenes taken from the propaganda documentary about Terezín produced by the Nazis – in which the children who performed the play and would later be murdered appear – accompanied by music composed in the ghetto by other composers such as Viktor Ullman, Karel Svenk and Ilse Weber.
Little Singers of the JORCAM. Ana González, musical director. Tomás Muñoz, stage director
Brundibár, children’s opera in two acts, with music by Hans Krása (1899-1944). Text by Adolf Hoffmeister (1902-1973). Version by Terezín (1943), with piano reduction by Peter Müller. Translation into Spanish by Marcin Lukasz Mazur, José Carmelo Hernández and Marife Navarro Idoy. With permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.
As a prologue, fragments of Theme, Variations and Fugue are performed on a Hebrew song, from the Piano Sonata No. 7 by Viktor Ullmann (1898-1944), the March of Terezín by Karel Švenk (1917-1945) and the song Wiegala by Ilse Weber (1903-1944).