This opera was first performed in nineteen forty-two at a Jewish children's orphanage in Prague, in what was then Czechoslovakia. Then Krasa and the children were sent to a Nazi concentration camp, along with most of the other Jews of Prague. Krasa directed the children as they performed the opera fifty-five times at the camp, before they were killed.

Maurice Sendak said that “Brundibar” represented the sadness he felt about losing family in the Holocaust. He thought that the book might help him move on from always thinking about his family’s past. He and Tony Kushner worked together to stage their own version of “Brundibar" as an opera for children.

Maurice Sendak won many awards including the Living Legend honor from the Library of Congress. He also won every major award for children’s literature. Time magazine called him “the Picasso of children’s books.”

The largest collection of his art can be found at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Maurice Sendak chose the museum in the late nineteen seventies to house his works. The collection includes more than ten thousand drawings, manuscripts, books and other items.

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