Bedrich Smetana: Der Kuss (2 CDs)

Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)

Ludmila Cervinkova, Karel Kalas, Beno Blachut, Marta Krasova, Prague National Theatre Orchestra, Zdenek Chalabala

2 CDs

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Artists:: Ludmila Cervinkova, Karel Kalas, Beno Blachut, Marta Krasova, Prague National Theatre Orchestra, Zdenek Chalabala
Label:: Supraphon
Year of recording ca.:: 1953
Item number:: 1294615
UPC/EAN:: 0099925387822
Release date:: 22.9.2006

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The comic opera The Kiss, based on a libretto by Eliska Krasnohorska, was Bedrich Smetana's sixth opera. It was completed in the summer of 1876, premiered in the fall of the same year at the Provisional Theater, and quickly entered the repertoire, becoming the second most often played opera in Prague (after The Bartered Bride). It is still tremendously popular - in the Czech Republic alone there have been roughly 180 productions, both professional and amateur, including 15 at Prague's National Theater.

This 1952 recording of The Kiss is one of the treasures of the Supraphon archive. Conductor Zdenek Chalabala, a Smetana connosieur, cast the best soloists of the National Theater in the leading roles, names which today are legendary musical personalites - Ludmila Cervinkova, Beno Blachut, Marta Krasova. This recording should be in the library of every Czech opera lover.

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Legendary singers of the National Theater Opera in Smetana's The Kiss

Disk 1 von 2 (CD)

Der Kuß (Hubicka, Oper in 2 Akten) (Gesamtaufnahme)

1 Ouverture (1. Akt)
2 Vendulka! Vendulka!
3 They're coming
4 Good evening! My brother-in-law Lukas here
5 My dearest! - Oh, we belong to each other?
6 Oh, look! Anger, is already stirring up their blood! - Let#s drink now to their health
7 Never, never in my sorrow
8 The red sunset is beaming
9 No, I say, leave me be!
10 Just as I said
11 Where is he going? - As if he forgot about that lively time
12 All right, I'm in a hurry anyway!
13 And you, my baby - Sleep now, my angel - A little snow white dove was flying
14 What a disgrace! - Play me the most sprightly dance
15 You should be ashamed! Even a boy would be ashamed