CANTILINGUA
OPERA LIBRETTOS
Spoken texts of full operas are devided into particular tracks according to the logic of music flow. The texts of all the characters are contained and introduced in a way respecting exact sequence of the texts in the librettos. Names of particular characters are always mentioned in addition to the text itself to ensure better orientation in the spoken libretto. The texts are spoken in a natural clear way respecting the common rhythm of the Czech language. Apart from audio recordings full opera products are also supplied with a synopsis of the opera concerned.
Type of recordings: Waveform Audio File Format (WAV)
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK: RUSALKA
After Antonín Dvorák had conquered the musical world -- he was considered the greatest Czech composer in Bohemia, the greatest composer after Brahms in Austria and Germany, the successor of Mendelssohn in England, and the greatest composer in the world
in the United States -- he returned to Bohemia to write the national operas of his people...
LEOŠ JANÁČEK: JENŮFA
Jenufa eventually became Leos Janacek's greatest triumph, in terms both of its artistry and of the advance it generated in the composer's reputation. The triumph was slow to come in both cases. Janacek first encountered the play Jeji pastorkyna (Her Foster Daughter),
by Gabriela Preissova, sometime in the early 1890s, and began working on the opera in earnest in 1894...
LEOŠ JANÁČEK: KÁŤA KABANOVÁ
Written between 1919 and 1921, the text for this sixth Janacek opera was written by the composer and based on the stage drama The Storm (1859) by the great Russian realist Alexander Nikolaievich Ostrovsky (1823-1886)...