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COPYRIGHT 2005 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
WEINBERGER: Svanda Dudak
Monogarova, Kostyuk; Robavs, Choupenitch, Teliga, Sharratt, Kozel, Ruane; National Philharmonic Orchestra of Belarus, Wexford Festival Opera Chorus, Reynolds. No texts or translations. Naxos 8.660146-47
Jaromir Weinberger's delightful Svanda Dudak (Svanda the Bagpiper) enthralled the world for a short period after its premiere in Prague in 1927. Translated into seventeen languages and given premieres at the Metropolitan Opera and Covent Garden, the opera all but disappeared twenty years later and has barely been heard since.
Why did it vanish? The story is certainly appealing enough....
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