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Dvorak - Kate and the Devil  | Supraphon SU39432

Dvorak - Kate and the Devil

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Label: Supraphon

Cat No: SU39432

Barcode: 0099925394325

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 30th June 2008

Contents

Artists

Ludmila Komancova
Premysl Koci
Lubomir Havlak
Marie Steinerova
Rudolf Asmus
Prague National Theatre Chorus & Orchestra

Conductor

Zdenek Chalabala

Works

Dvorak, Antonin

Kate and the Devil (Cert a Kaca), op.112 B201

Artists

Ludmila Komancova
Premysl Koci
Lubomir Havlak
Marie Steinerova
Rudolf Asmus
Prague National Theatre Chorus & Orchestra

Conductor

Zdenek Chalabala

About

The success of the symphonic poems Water Sprite, Midday Witch, Golden Spinning-Wheel and Pigeon, drawing on themes from folk ballads, encouraged Dvořįk to seek inspiration for another opera in Czech popular fairy-tales.

After historic themes and comical plots (Dimitri, The Jacobin, The Stubborn Lovers, etc.), the libretto deals with a Chod fairy-tale with all its salient features: the muddleheaded devil, the saucy Kate, who even gives Lucifer himself a piece of her mind, the shrewd shepherd Jirka, as well as justice that in the end is accorded to ordinary people – precisely thanks to the shepherd’s adroitness and the gruesome authority of Hell.

The opera was conducted by Zdeněk Chalabala and performed in 1955 by excellent soloists - it is this version that is now being released on a CD by Supraphon for the first time.

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