An experience that highlights values such as peace and tolerance comes full circle, enabling a dialogue between the boys and girls who are performing in it now and those who did so 20 years ago.
In 1938 the Czech composer Hans Krása wrote a two-act children’s opera entitled Brundibár (The Bumblebee). He was unable to attend the premiere, which was held in secret in Prague, since he had been deported to a concentration camp. There, he rewrote the opera, as he had been unable to take the scores with him, and he got the boys and girls in the camp to perform it. Thanks to the music, they thus achieved the feeling of a certain degree of normality in those terrible times. The piece speaks to us critically about oppression, but is naïve in appearance.
The values of peace and tolerance and principles such as the acceptance of difference are fundamental in this opera; hence, in 1998 Brundibár became the centre of an experience of initiation in music that turned the city’s schoolchildren into actors and singers.
Almost 20 years later, nearly 500 pupils and teachers from secondary schools in Barcelona are the stars of a new staging of the project and they close the circle by making possible a dialogue between the boys and girls who took part in the experience 20 years ago (a few of whom are today part of the creative and management team) and those experiencing it now.
Composició musical: Frans Krása; Autoria del llibret: Adolf Hoffmeister; Traducció: David Cirici; Producció i direcció musical: Grup Instrumental BCN216; Direcció artística: David Albet; Direcció d'escena: Els Pirates Teatre; Direcció i il·luminació: Adrià Aubert; Coordinació educativa i pedagògica: Comusitària; Direcció musical: Ernest Martínez Izquierdo; Interpretació musical: Grup Instrumental BCN216; Direcció vocal solistes i cor d'escena: Sònia Gatell; Direcció del cor Finestres: Paula Giberga ; Interpretació: Llorenç González, Elisabet Giner, Alazne Fernández, Aina Ferré, Andrea Fornell, Cristina Lozano, Carla Jover, Júlia Barragan, Júlia Ribes, Laia Santamarta; Solistes i cor d'escena: Coral SOM-night (Coral de joves de les Corals Musicorum); Cor Finestres: Alumnes dels Instituts 4Cantons, Escola Cooperativa Nou Patufet i Poeta Maragall; Escenografia: Enric Romaní; Moviment: Robert González; Assistència de moviment: Núria Cuyàs; Vestuari: María Albadalejo; Ajudantia de direcció: Laura Aubert i Lluna Pindado ; Producció: Anabel Labrador;
