Voices of hope: Children's opera 'Brundibar' was a light in the darkness of the Holocaust, and now CityMusic Cleveland …

Posted By admin on February 19, 2012

A children's opera about an evil organ grinder who resembles Hitler has inspired communities around the world to remember and learn from the horrors of the Holocaust. This week, CityMusic Cleveland embarks on an artistic project that will explore the Holocaust, genocide and oppression with a series of events leading up to performances of “Brundibar,” the children's opera that was performed 55 times at Theresienstadt, the Nazi internment camp in northern Czechoslovakia. The CityMusic project is generating a swell of activity involving hundreds of people — from here and around the country — even before a note of “Brundibar” sounds in May at Cleveland's John Hay High School

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Voices of hope: Children's opera 'Brundibar' was a light in the darkness of the Holocaust, and now CityMusic Cleveland …

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