Bodhi Tree Concerts presents an extraordinary and touching operatic event on Saturday, June 11, 2016.
Brundib?r was first performed in 1944 by the children of the Nazi concentration camp in Terez?n, Czechoslovakia.
In its San Diego premiere, the concert will feature the youth orchestra from La Jolla Country Day School prepared by Joan Diener and young singers from the Warren Walker and Language Academy Schools, conducted by Michael Morgan.
In addition, there will be an opening narration by Holocaust survivor Edith Eger.
One might wonder why the Nazis allowed this piece to be performed. The evil organ grinder, Brundib?r, who bore a strong resemblance to Hitler, was defeated by the masses of children working together. So why was the opera permitted?
As it is written in Czech, the Nazis did not spend the time to translate the text; and they assumed the last thing an opera sung entirely by children would be was subversive. That's exactly what it was, though.
It lifted the hopes of all that watched it and sang in it. It was the picture of hope: the all-child cast working together on stage singing about the value of teamwork and love, and their ability to vanquish even the mightiest evil.
Bodhi Tree Concerts is a San Diego pioneer of arts organizations partnering with and donating to charities, and is now in its fifth year of philanthropy through the arts.
Admission/Cost: $20
Location:
Irwin Jacobs Qualcomm Hall
5775 Morehouse Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
Saturday, June 11 - 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.bodhitreeconcerts.org
Brundib?r was first performed in 1944 by the children of the Nazi concentration camp in Terez?n, Czechoslovakia.
In its San Diego premiere, the concert will feature the youth orchestra from La Jolla Country Day School prepared by Joan Diener and young singers from the Warren Walker and Language Academy Schools, conducted by Michael Morgan.
In addition, there will be an opening narration by Holocaust survivor Edith Eger.
One might wonder why the Nazis allowed this piece to be performed. The evil organ grinder, Brundib?r, who bore a strong resemblance to Hitler, was defeated by the masses of children working together. So why was the opera permitted?
As it is written in Czech, the Nazis did not spend the time to translate the text; and they assumed the last thing an opera sung entirely by children would be was subversive. That's exactly what it was, though.
It lifted the hopes of all that watched it and sang in it. It was the picture of hope: the all-child cast working together on stage singing about the value of teamwork and love, and their ability to vanquish even the mightiest evil.
Bodhi Tree Concerts is a San Diego pioneer of arts organizations partnering with and donating to charities, and is now in its fifth year of philanthropy through the arts.
Admission/Cost: $20
Location:
Irwin Jacobs Qualcomm Hall
5775 Morehouse Drive
San Diego, CA 92121
Saturday, June 11 - 7:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.bodhitreeconcerts.org
