OPERA
THE LORD IN WHITE OR NO HAUNTS LEFT FOR GHOSTS
Jaroslav Křička
Premiere Oct 28, 2021, 6.30 PM
Antonín Dvořák Theatre
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THE LORD IN WHITE OR NO HAUNTS LEFT FOR GHOSTS

Jaroslav Křička

Premiere Oct 28, 2021, 6.30 PM - Antonín Dvořák Theatre

Musical comedy in two acts from 1929

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Libretto by Jan Löwenbach-Budín (1880–1972) in the adaptation of Max Brod (1884–1968) from 1930
based on The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) from 1887
Musical preparation David Švec
Stage director Ondřej Havelka
 
Křička’s opera shows how much popular is the short story The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wild in which he concerns with the lifestyle of modern Americans and the vanishing habits of a "happy English home". Such home is represented by an ancient castle which is bought by an American ambassador, including a ghost living in it. The setting of the opera was changed (into Czechoslovakia after the First World War), the authors also added a topical issue of that time: the land registries and the system how they worked. There is also a love affair between Gorge, count of Satalice Castle, and ambassador’s daughter Elinor involved in the plot. In the opera, Křička used components of the so-called Zeitoper (entertaining dance music in the 1920s, jazz, revue style, film projection); however, the result seems more like an operetta in which folk songs and waltz rhythms are significant as well.
The opera’s opening night was conducted by Antonín Balatka and held on 27 November, 1929, in Brno. The NDM introduces a remake intended for German theatres that was staged in Wrocław in November 1931 for the first time and which included a text adaptation of Max Brod, a German writer from Prague who contributed to the international promotion of the work of Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hašek, and Leoš Janáček. It was in 1932 when the Ostrava audience saw this version of the opera in Jaroslav Vogel’s musical preparation for the first time.
 
Performed in the Czech original with English subtitles
 
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Národní divadlo moravskoslezské
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Musical preparation
David Švec
Conductor
Jiří Habart
David Švec
Stage director
Ondřej Havelka
Set designer
Martin Černý
Assistant of scenography
Anna Šmídová
Costume designer
Jana Zbořilová
Motion cooperation
Ondřej Havelka
Author of trick effects
Petr Kasnar
Chorus master
Jurij Galatenko
Dramaturg
Juraj Bajús
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Date Time Stage Type Detail Tickets
Oct 26, 2021Antonín Dvořák TheatreVeřejná generální zkouškashow detail
Oct 28, 20216.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatrePremiereshow detail
Oct 30, 20216.30 PMAntonín Dvořák Theatre2nd premiereshow detail
Nov 4, 20216.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Nov 14, 20214.00 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Dec 31, 20215.00 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Jan 20, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Jan 25, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Feb 3, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Mar 2, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Mar 11, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Apr 19, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
May 11, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Oct 8, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Oct 18, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Nov 25, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Dec 2, 20226.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Jan 25, 20236.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Feb 8, 20236.30 PMAntonín Dvořák TheatreRepetitionshow detail

Inscenace není v této sezóně na repertoáru.

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Sbor opery NDM

Martin Gurbaľ (Mr. Hollywood), Doubravka Novotná (Elinor), Josef Moravec (George, count), Martin Štolba (Real estate broker)
Photo by: Martin Popelář
Václav Čížek (Bob, the American servant / The Voice), Denisa Bílá (Andulka, lady's made)
Photo by: Martin Popelář
Martin Gurbaľ (Mr. Hollywood), Jana Horáková Levicová (Mrs. Hollywood), Václav Čížek (Bob, the American servant / The Voice), Dominika Škrabalová (Castellan), Alžběta Vomáčková (Cedrik)
Photo by: Martin Popelář
Jana Horáková Levicová (Mrs. Hollywood), Josef Moravec (George, count), Doubravka Novotná (Elinor), Martin Gurbaľ (Mr. Hollywood), Alžběta Vomáčková (Cedrik)
Photo by: Martin Popelář
Doubravka Novotná (Elinor), Josef Moravec (George, count)
Photo by: Martin Popelář
Alžběta Vomáčková (Cedrik)
Photo by: Martin Popelář
Tadeáš Hoza (The Ghost of count Kazimír of Satalice)
Photo by: Martin Popelář
Doubravka Novotná (Elinor), Tadeáš Hoza (The Ghost of count Kazimír of Satalice)
Photo by: Martin Popelář
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