Dimitrij
Music by Antonín Dvořák · libretto by Marie Červinková-Riegrová · premiered 1882
Dimitrij is a Czech-language grand opera in four acts by Antonín Dvořák (Op. 64, B. 127), set to a libretto by Marie Červinková-Riegrová, with a plot derived from Ferdinand Mikovec's Dimitr Ivanovič, itself based upon Friedrich Schiller's incomplete Demetrius. The work was first performed in Prague in 1882.
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About the Composer
Antonín Leopold Dvořák (8 September 1841 – 1 May 1904) was a Czech composer. He frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia, following the Romantic era nationalist example of his predecessor Bedřich Smetana. Dvořák's style has been described as "the fullest recreation of a national idiom with that of the symphonic tradition, absorbing folk influences and finding effective ways of using them", and Dvořák has been described as "arguably the most versatile... composer of his time". Dvořák displayed his musical gifts at an early age, being a talented violin student. The first public performances of his works were in Prague in 1872 and, with…
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Other Operas by Antonín Dvořák
- King and Charcoal Burner
- Alfred (1870)
- Armida (1904)