Schwanda the Bagpiper
Tags
Opera,
Fun and experience
Length
165 min
Director
Vladimír Morávek
Release
28. 5. 2020
Author
Jaromír Weinberger
Cast
Jiří Brückler / Svatopluk Sem, Alžběta Poláčková / Jana Šrejma Kačírková, Martin Šrejma / Jaroslav Březina, Ester Pavlů / Kateřina Jalovcová, Roman Janál / Martin Bárta / Martin Gurbaĺ, František Zahradníček / Jiří Sulženko, Ondřej Koplík / Dušan Růžička, Vladimír Doležal / Dušan Růžička, Vít Šantora / Vjačeslav Korsak
An extraordinary performance of the opera Schwanda the Bagpiper by the Czech (and later on, American too) composer Jaromír Weinberger.
Weinberger’s fabulous – and truly folksy – opera garnered ovations at many theatres in Europe. As translated by Max Brod in 1931 Schwanda the Bagpiper was even staged at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.