General information
Title CZDen dobročinnosti
Subtitle CZopera o 3 dějstvích
Title ENThe Day of Charity / The Day of Good Deeds
Subtitle ENOpera in 3 acts
Title DEDer Wohltätigkeitstag
Subtitle DEOper in drei Aufzügen
Title FRLe jour de bonté
Subtitle FRopéra en trois actes
CategoryStage Works and Film Music
SubcategoryOperas
Halbreich number194
Author of lyrics/libretto Ribemont-Dessaignes, Georges
Durata75' (verze Milana Kaňáka / Milan Kaňák's version: 82')
Instruments0121-0210-Timp-Batt(Ptti,GC,Tamb rull)-Pf-Archi
List of charactersBlonde (S), Lucas (T), Nicolas (T), postman (T), desperate woman (mS), woman (A), vagabond (B), policeman (BBar), mayor (B), sacristian and other smaller parts, mixed chorus
Origin
Place of compositionParis
Year of origin1931
Initiation of composition1930
Completion of composition04/1931
First performance
Performer Godefroid, Philippe
Hájovská, Kateřina
Kaňák, Milan
Klán, Daniel
Průdek, Josef
Sem, Svatopluk
Date of the first performance28.03.2003
Location of the first performanceČeské Budějovice, South Bohemian Theatre
Note on the first performanceMilan Kaňák (cond.), Josef Průdek (direction), Philippe Godefroid (scen.), Daniel Klán (Lucas), Svatopluk Sem (Nicolas), Kateřina Hájovská (Blonde)
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourcePaul Sacher Stiftung
Note on the autograph depostitionAutograph piano reduction also held by the PSS in Basel.
Copyright
CopyrightSchott Music GmbH & Co.
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First edition
PublisherSchott Music GmbH & Co.
Place of issuePraha
Note on first edition Available as handwritten copy of score.
Editions available at the BM Institute

Call number at the BM Institute: 1294
Specification of the edition: Revised edition (copy of handwritten copy) - score
Details of this edition
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Note French libretto: Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes; German translation: Camill Hoffmann; Czech translation: Vladimír Fux.
Date of origin: second half of the 1930 - April 1931; completion of the texts: 30.7.1930.
Oper is unfinished, reconstructed by Milan Kaňák.
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