Libri Moderni
Kushner, Tony - Kushner, Tony
Brundibar / retold by Tony Kushner ; pictures by Maurice Sendak ; after the opera by Hans Krasa and Adolf Hoffmeister
New York : Michael Di Capua Books, 2003
Abstract:
When Aninku and Pepicek discover that their mother is sick, they rush to town for milk to make her better, but their attempt to earn money by singing is thwarted by a bullying hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, who chases away all other street musicians...
This book is based on a czech opera of the same name ("Brundibar" is czech slang for "Bumblebee"), with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, set to music by Hans Krasa. Completed in 1938, the opera was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, the nazi concentration camp. Krasa, who was jewish, was also imprisoned in Terezin. He was killed in Auschwitz in 1944.