THE TWO WIDOWS Smetana – National Moravian-Silesian Theatre
The calm and peaceful lives of two young widows - cousins Karolina and Anežka, who live together on a countryside estate - is suddenly stirred up by an unexpected visitor. It becomes obvious that the mysterious poacher, who suddenly appears in the estate’s forest, is not out hunting for a doe but rather pining for one of them.
At the beginning of the 1870s, Smetana faced a rising number of challenges to his position of artistic director of Prague’s opera ensemble. From this tense and pressured period for the composer sprang a work of immense creative grace. He seems to delight in evoking a world of people of refined manners, fine culture and the gentle atmosphere of a rural estate. Perhaps it was a relief from life’s difficulties and an escape from everyday dullness - a kind of summer fairy tale with a happy end. With The Two Widows, Smetana created a unique style of conversational opera, which Richard Strauss considered one of the best operas of 19th century. As an integral part of the Smetana Opera Cycle Ostrava 2024, the production was staged by Slovenian director and scenographer Rocc, who offers a rare non-Czech point of view on this lesser-known gem of the operatic repertoire.
Full performance streamed on OperaVision from 27 July 2024 at 19:00 CET to 27 January 2025 at 12:00 CET:
CAST
Karolina
Lada Bočková
Anežka
Veronika Rovná
Ladislav Podhajský
Martin Šrejma
Mumlal
Martin Gurbaľ
Toník
Václav Čížek
Lidka
Karolína Levková
Priest
Petr Urbánek
Orchestra
National Moravian‐Silesian Opera Orchestra
Chorus
National Moravian-Silesian Opera Chorus
Music
Bedřich Smetana
Text
Emanuel František Züngel after Jean Pierre Félicien Mallefille
Conductor
Marek Šedivý
Direction & sets
Rocc
Costumes
Belinda Radulović
Movement Director
Anna Knollová
Chorus Master
Jurij Galatenko
Dramaturg
Juraj Bajús
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