Joyful Opera Performed In Nazi Concentration Camp Revived In Chicago — npr.org

Ela Stein Weissberger joins the cast of Brundibar for a final song. Cheryl Corley hide caption Ela Stein Weissberger joins the cast of Brundibar for a final song. Brundibár, a children's opera premiered during World War II, became both a symbol of hope and resistance and a Nazi propaganda tool. Now, Petite Opera, a small company in suburban Chicago, is reprising the opera, originally performed by Jewish children held in a concentration camp in occupied Czechoslovakia.

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