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Bedrich Smetana: The Two Widows.

Publication: Czech Music
Publication Date: 01-OCT-07 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Bedrich Smetana: The Two Widows.(Opera review)

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Bedrich Smetana The Two Widows

Marie Podvalova--soprano, Marie Tauberova--soprano, Beno Blachut--tenor, Eduard Haken--bass, Oldrich Kovar--tenor, Miloslava Fidlerova--soprano, Czechoslovak Radio Choir, Jiri Pinkas--choirmaster, Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Karel Ancerl.

Production: Beno Blachut Company. Text: Cz., Eng., Ger. Recorded: 1948, Czechoslovak Radio Studio, Prague. Released: 2007. TT: 53:37, 68:54. AAD. 2 CD Beno Blachut Company 003-07-02.

The final form of Smetana's comic opera The Two Widows, as in the case of The Bartered Bride, was not the direct result of the composer's critical perspective on his own word, but his reaction to responses from the musical public. Both operas originally had spoken dialogue, in both the folk element was later strengthened (in the Bartered Bride with dance, and in the Two Widows with the added characters of Tonik and Lidka and similar changes), and both formed an important intermediate step towards The Kiss, the first full-length Czech fully musically composed comic opera (the first Czech opera without spoken dialogue...

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