Vilém Blodek: In the Well: Comic Opera in 1 Act

For the Year of Czech Music and for the 150th anniversary of the death of the Czech composer Vilém Blodek, Supraphon has prepared a real treat for opera lovers in the form of the 1959 stereo recording of the opera In the Well (V studni), never before released on any physical medium. The recording was released briefly in the first half of the 1960s on LP records, but only in a mono-phonic version. After that, it disappeared from the catalogue for several deca-des. Only now, nearly 66 years since the recording was made and after careful restoration of the sound from the original tapes, this rarity from the early days of stereophonic recording technology is being released in all of its original sonic glory. The soloists were Milada Šubrtová, Štěpánka Štěpánová, Ivo Žídek, and Zdeněk Kroupa. The chorus and orchestra of the Prague National Theatre were conducted by František Škvor in his only complete operatic recording in the Supraphon catalogue. At the same time, this release also commemorates the recent 100th anniversary of the birth of Milada Šubrtová, a singer at the Prague National Theatre.

1: Ouverture
2: Oh, Times Are Hard Now
3: So What Did You Come For, Lidunka?
4: What They Told You About Me
5: Young Love That's a Paradise
6: It's St. John's Eve Today
7: The Evening Light Rises in the Mountains
8: She Wants to See the Face
9: This Is Going to Be Fun
10: Moonrise (Intermezzo)
11: We'll Light the St. John's Fires On the Mountains
12: We Shall Wait Here
13: We Shall Light the Great Bonfires On the Mountains
14: Oh, Just Go, Just Go, Just Go
15: Golden, Golden Veruna
16: St. John's Fires Glow
17: I Call in the Holts and Forests
18: I Have Been Waiting for a Long Time
19: Finale - St. John's Fires Glow
20: Woe! Woe! It's the Devil!
21: We Understand One Another
22: We Shall Light the Great Bonfires On the Mountains

Composer: Vilém Blodek

Conductor: Frantisek Skvor

Number of Discs: 1

Orchestra: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

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