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War with the Newts at The State Opera

Dates: (6/4/2014 - 6/25/2014 )

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The State Opera


Legerova 75
Praha 1,Praha 1 110 00

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Running Time: 2 hours and 20 minutes, 1 intermission

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Hot on the heels of Marko Ivanovi?’s Enchantia, the National Theatre has another brand-new opera in store. Vladimír Franz (1959), an eminent Czech composer and painter, holder of six Alfred Radok Awards, has chosen to set to music Karel ?apek’s celebrated novel War with the Newts. Franz wrote the opera in 2005 to commission for the National Theatre. The librettist Rostislav K?ivánek used the lyrics of three songs by Ji?í Suchý. The opera’s creators were above all intrigued by the novel’s theme of the endless human inability to realise nascent danger, the arrogant self-confidence and assumption of superiority of the human race, convinced as it is that it is capable of mastering everything that it creates. They were captivated by the theme of human adhesion to material gain, the belief that rising standards of living justify any means.

Opera is staged in czech language and czech and english surtitles are used in the performance.

Cast and Creative team for War with the Newts at The State Opera

Musical preparation: Marko Ivanovi?
Conductor: Marko Ivanovi?, František Drs
Stage director: David Drábek
Sets: Šimon Caban
Costumes: Simona Rybáková
Light-design: Pavel Dautovský
Choreography: Henrieta Horná?ková
Chorus master: Tvrtko Karlovi?
Dramaturgy: Pavel Petrán?k

Maria Kobielska
Simona Procházková

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