Brundibar by Hans Krasa - Moran Choir and the GewandhausKinderchor - Part 1

The opera Brundibar was written by composer Hans Krasa in 1938 in ghetto Terezenstadt. The opera tells the story of the children of ghetto Terezenstatd, it was a symbol of hope in the struggle against the Nazi conqueror. A unique cooperation was formed for the performance of the opera between the Moran Choir from Israel and the Gewandhaus Childern Choir from Leipzig, and between conductors Naomi Faran and Frank-Steffen Elster. Together the two choirs performed the opera in the Gewandhaus hall in Leipzig, the Modern Jewish Museum in Berlin and in the Rishon LeZion central hall in Israel.