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O P E R A
For one decade already, the cultural life in Prague
has traditionally been culminating with the stagione of Opera Mozart at
The Estates Theatre.
Do not miss
the most famous opera of all time, in the excellent performance
multiplied by an impressive stage, original costumes and top international
cast. Only Prague can offer you this opera of all operas at the authentic
theatre where the grat Maestro personaly conducted its world
premiere.
Is The Magic Flute a remarkable fairy-tale opera with
comic elements, a folk comedy or a complex work full of free-masonic
symbolism? Is it a story of love that overcomes all obstacles or a serious
work motivating the viewer to endeavor for perfection? This last dramatic
work of Mozart contains all these levels and thus offers an everlasting
challenge to all who attempt to bring it to the stage. Director David
Radok presents his own conception, full of fantasy and interesting
insights. David Radok's staging from 1993 shall be tested for the tour of
Japan in a new form. The premiere of the renewed production shall take
place in Japan and after the return of our operatic ensemble, audiences in
Prague shall also have the opportunity ot admire the new version of The
Magic Flute. Opera is sung in Czech.
It is now difficult to decipher in the libretto of the
marriage of Figaro the reasons why it was once considered controversial.
It lampooned human frailties and failings which even the nobility
understandably found irresistible. Today, however, we laugh at its
comical, almost slapstick situations, humorous resolutions of plots and
gratifying masquerade situations; and we do not have the slightest fear
that the shrewd Figaro will not protect his sweet Suzanne from the horrors
of the count. The enormous success of the marriage of Figaro on its
premiere in Prague in 1786 was the reason why Mozart wrote his largest
work, Don Giovanni, directly for Prague.
The Czech triptych is a new dramatic project of the
National Theatre opera, which each season brings to the stage three
unknown thematically connected operas by Czech composers from various
periods, in the form of a concert performance. The implementation of this
project requires an unusual amount of editing activity . preparation of
manuscript materials and also publicity . the programmes for these operas
are also conceived as small monographic studies of their authors. With
this project we wish to extend in a wider collection awareness of Czech
operatic creation and also in this form of presentation to highlight the
dramatic art of foreign opera houses on a range of unknown Czech operas.
The first range of the Czech triptych for the season 2002/2003 is
dedicated to the pre-Smetana generation of authors. It concerns authors
born around 1800.
The Czech triptych is a new dramatic project of the
National Theatre opera, which each season brings to the stage three
unknown thematically connected operas by Czech composers from various
periods, in the form of a concert performance. The implementation of this
project requires an unusual amount of editing activity . preparation of
manuscript materials and also publicity . the programmes for these operas
are also conceived as small monographic studies of their authors. With
this project we wish to extend in a wider collection awareness of Czech
operatic creation and also in this form of presentation to highlight the
dramatic art of foreign opera houses on a range of unknown Czech operas.
The first range of the Czech triptych for the season 2002/2003 is
dedicated to the pre-Smetana generation of authors. It concerns authors
born around 1800.
