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Johann Christian Bach: Amadis de Gaule

Amadis de Gaule is the perfect embodiment of a knight. Beautiful Oriane returns his love but the wicked enchantress Arcabonne and her brother Arcalaüs make dark and perfidious plots. Will good triumph over evil in the end…?

Amadis de Gaule is the last opera composed by Johann Christian Bach. Commissioned in 1779 by the Royal Academy of Music, the then Opéra de Paris, it was composed in French. Its instrumentation is particularly meticulous and reminiscent of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (composed eight years later) or Beethoven’s Fidelio (1805).

The French Institutes of Prague and Bratislava and the Palazzetto Bru Zane (Centre for French Romantic Music) collaborated to revive this lyrical masterpiece. The opera, for seventy artists, will be presented on November 26, 2010 in Bratislava on the occasion of the Bratislava Music Festival, and on December 1 at the Prague State Opera.

Sponsors: Culturesfrance, Festival BHS, Peugeot, Crédit Agricole – Corporate and Investement Bank, Peterka Partners and the Association of French Teachers in the Czech Republic (SUF), Prague State Opera, Radio Classic FM and Sanquis.

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The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates
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The Prague State Opera in cooperation with the Slovart publishing house publishes a representative book tracking the history of this significant cultural institution since its opening in 1888 till the end of the 2002/2003 season. The publication called The Prague State Opera – Theatre History in Pictures and Dates is focusing solely on the opera featured at the scene, even though the theatre under various names also served to presentation of drama plays, operettas and ballet. The Prague State opera plans to publish the volumes concentrating on those genres in the next years.

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