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Royal Opera House 2023/24: Rusalka

Rusalka - Opéra National du Capitole de Toulouse

Rusalka

The Metropolitan Opera: Rusalka

Dvorak: Rusalka

Princezna Pampeliška

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Prodaná nevěsta

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Ty petřínské stráně

The Gold Key

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Jaroslav Kvapil (25 September 1868 in Chudenice, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 January 1950 in Prague) was a Czech poet, theatre director, translator, playwright, and librettist. From 1900 he was a director and Dramaturg at the National Theatre in Prague, where he introduced plays by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky into the repertory. Later he was a director at the Vinohrady Theatre (1921–1928). He wrote six plays, but is today chiefly remembered as the librettist of Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka.
Kvapil was the principal author of the Manifesto of Czech writers of 1917, signed by over two hundred leading Czechs, favouring the concept of Czech self-government.
He was a prominent freemason, from 1923 to 1924 he was first Grand Master of the National Grand Lodge of Czechoslovakia. He was married to actress Hana Kvapilová from 1894 until her death in 1907.

Jaroslav Kvapil

Jaroslav Kvapil

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