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Aninku and Pepicek find their mother sick one morning, they need to buy her milk to make her better. The brother and sister go to town to make money by singing. But a hurdy-gurdy grinder, Brundibar, chases them away. They are helped by three talking animals and three hundred schoolchildren, to defeat the bully. Brundibar is based on a Czech opera for children that was performed fifty-five times by the children of Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp...

A motley crew of dogs presents a rhyming tale of seagoing adventure.

The music is not everything in opera. Its full enjoyment can be achieved only with the knowledge of the words that are being sung -- usually in a foreign language. In this series, the librettos are presented in the original language with an English line by line translation. This, it is possible to follow the song and to understand the meaning of the foreign words. The selection of the operas to be included in this volume was determined largely by...