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Ballet Performance Replacement March 30, 2010
As a replacement for the initially scheduled performance The Phantom of the Opera, the Swan lake is going to be performed on the March 30.
A New Production in the Making: Don Quichotte
Preparations are in full swing for an exceptional operatic event: the first night, on March 18, 2010, of a new production of Jules Massenet’s Don Quichotte. It is being staged by Jiří Nekvasil, for whom the occasion marks a comeback to the State Opera after eight years. Alternating in the title role will be Rubén Amoretti, a bass of Italian-Spanish extraction, and Serbian bass Ivan Tomašev; Sancho Panza will be performed by Mexican baritone Noé Colín, alternating with Jakub Kettner; and the two ladies cast as Dulcinée are Galia Ibragimova and Andrea Kalivodová. The staging is conducted by Heiko Mathias Förster of Germany, who made a successful debut at the Prague State Opera with the revived premiere of Verdi’s Otello in May 2009. The coming premiere is dedicated to the memory of an outstanding Czech interpreter of Don Quichotte, the bass Eduard Haken, the centenary of whose birth will be marked this coming March. He created the part in the last previous production of the Massenet opera in Prague, on the stage of the then Smetana Theatre (today’s Prague State Opera), between the years 1965 and 1967. Rehearsal photos: Luděk Novák.
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Performances coming soon
- Conductor: F. Drs, J. Štrunc
- Stage director: K. Jernek
- Set designer: O. Šimáček
- Costume designer: O. Filipi
- Chorus master: T. Karlovič
- Assistant director: O. Kyndlová
The opera is based on an American writer’s novel, written according to a true event. The composer found everything he needed in the story of Cio-Cio-San’s unhappy love – a sentimental story, sharp plot contrasts, exotic setting, action and tenderness. The spiritual background of the opera is the meeting of two cultures – in the character of Pinkerton (as the cynical representative of the superior white race) and a young Japanese girl. The music of Madam Butterfly shows great mastery in giving a true picture of the atmosphere and poetry of the orient, even though it is borne by Puccini’s own harmonious devices.
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03. 12. 2010 at 19:00
G. Puccini: Madama Butterfly
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03. 13. 2010 at 19:00
G. Puccini: La Bohème
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03. 14. 2010 at 14:00
G. Verdi: Aida
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