Organization

Singer

Jiří Dvořák

Ping-pong ball

Martin Gurbaľ

Mr. Hollywood

David Nykl

Jana Horáková Levicová

Mrs. Hollywood

Jana Hrochová

Soňa Godarská

Elinor

Doubravka Součková

Markéta Cukrová

Cedrik

Anna Nitrová

Josef Moravec

George, count

Juraj Nociar

Jiří Hájek

The Ghost

Tadeáš Hoza

Václav Morys

Proutek, Member of Parliament

Vít Nosek

Marek Gurbal

Real estate broker

Martin Štolba

Monika Jägerová

Castellan

Dominika Škrabalová

Ivana Ambrúsová

Andulka, lady's made

Marcela Gurbaľová

Václav Čížek

Bob, american servant

Aleš Burda

Mayor of Satalice

Petr Němec

Filip Kasztura

Member of Parliament

Tomáš Krpec

Vlastimil Nitschmann

Reporter

Petr Urbanek

Vít Habernal

Groom

Aleš Pirnos

Conductor

Jiří Habart

David Švec

Costume designer

Jana Zbořilová

Set designer

Martin Černý

Dramaturge

Juraj Bajús

Chorus master

Jurij Galatenko

Stage director

Ondřej Havelka

National Moravian-Silesian Theatre

Czech

The Gentleman in White, or it's tough scaring ghosts today

Ostrava

Czech Republic

Antonín Dvořák Theatre

The Gentleman in White, or it's tough scaring ghosts today Křička

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Libreto Jan Löwenbach-Budín (1880–1972) v novém zpracování Maxe Broda (1884–1968) na motivy povídky Oscara Wildea (1854–1900) Strašidlo cantervillské z roku ...

Křiček's opera illustrates the great popularity of Oscar Wilde's the Ghost of Canterville. Wilde contrasted the lifestyle of modern Americans with the departing customs of a "happy English home," as represented by the ancient castle that the American envoy buys with an age-old ghost. The environment in the opera changed (Czechoslovakia after the First World War), the authors also added a topical topic at that time: the practice of land offices. The plot also included a love affair between the Count of the Castle in Satalice Jiří and the daughter of the American envoy Elinor. Křička used the popular methods of so-called time operas (dance forms of entertaining music of the 20s, jazz, revue style, film projection), but the resulting shape resembled an operetta in which an equally important place fell to folk chants and waltz rhythms.
The premiere of the opera took place on 27 November 1929 in Brno under the direction of conductor Antonín Balatka. In the National Theatre we present it in a revised version for German theatres; it was first performed in Wrocław in November 1931. The author of the text adaptation was Max Brod, a Prague German writer who, among other things, contributed to the international promotion of the work of Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hašek and Leoš Janáček. Ostrava audiences could get acquainted with this opera the following year in a musical production by Jaroslav Vogel.

The Gentleman in White, or it's tough scaring ghosts today by Křička, From (2021/2021), Directed by Ondřej Havelka,, Conductor Jiří Habart, David Švec, Antonín Dvořák Theatre, Ostrava, Czech Republic

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