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Vanda (opera)

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Written
  
1875

Composer
  
Antonín Dvořák

Language
  
Czech

First performance
  
17 April 1876

Librettist
  
František Zákrejs

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Vanda is a grand opera in five acts by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech libretto was written by Václav Beneš-Šumavský and František Zákrejs after a work by Julian Surzycki.

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Performance history

The opera was first performed at the Provisional Theatre in Prague on 17 April 1876.

Synopsis

The story is about the Polish queen, Princess Wanda, who drowns herself in the Vistula river in order to save her people from the German invaders.

Recordings

  • 2004: Olga Romanko (Vanda), Valentin Prolat (Slavoj), Ivan Kusnjer (Roderich), Jolana Fogašová (Božena), Oleg Korotkov (Pagan high priest), Roman Janál (Lumír), Yvona Skvárová (Homena); Gerd Albrecht, conductor; National Theatre (Prague)

    • References

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