General information
Title CZVeselohra na mostě [auth.]
Subtitle CZrozhlasová opera o 1 dějství
Title ENComedy on the Bridge
Subtitle ENradio-opera in 1 act
Title DEKomödie auf der Brücke
Subtitle DEFunkoper in einem Akt
CategoryStage Works and Film Music
SubcategoryOperas
Halbreich number247
Author of lyrics/libretto Martinů, Bohuslav
Author of literary model Klicpera, Václav Kliment
Durata38'
Instruments1111-2110-Timp-Batt-Pf-Archi
List of charactersPopelka (S), Sykoš (Bar), Bedroň (B), Eva (A), Teacher (T), officer, 2 guards and soldiers (Sp)
Origin
Place of compositionParis
Year of origin1935
Initiation of composition1935
Completion of composition10.12.1935
First performance
Performer Celerin, Josef
Cyteráková, Marie
Jeremiáš, Otakar
Kühn, Jan
Leiss, Karel
Rujan, Bořek
Vildová, Julie
Date of the first performance18.03.1937
Location of the first performancePrague, Czechoslovak Radio
Note on the first performancePrague, Radiojournal Studio, live broadcast of station Praha 1, beginning at 21:30.
Mixed choir of Radiojournal (choirmaster Jan Kühn), Prague Radio Orchestra (conductor Otakar Jeremiáš).
Soloists: Josef Celerin (bass / hop-grower Bedroň), Marie Cyteráková (alto / Eva, his daughter), Bořek Rujan (baritone / fisherman Sykoš), Julie Vildová (soprano / Popelka), Karel Leiss (tenor / teacher).
Ensemble Český pěvecký sbor
Symfonický orchestr Českého rozhlasu
Autograph deposition
Owner of the sourceČeský rozhlas
Note on the autograph depostitionDraft located at the Moravian Museum in Brno.
Copy in a foreign hand held by the Bohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička.
Copyright
CopyrightBoosey & Hawkes
Note on copyrightCopyright for Czech and Slovak: Dilia, Prague)
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First edition
PublisherBoosey & Hawkes
Place of issueNew York, NY
Year of publication1951
Editions available at the BM Institute
Boosey & Hawkes, London, 1959
Call number at the BM Institute: 1177kv
Specification of the edition: Reprint of the 1st edition - piano reduction
Details of this edition
Dilia – Divadelní a literární agentura, Prague, 1960
Call number at the BM Institute: 1177a
Specification of the edition: 1st edition - piano reduction by Dilia
Details of this edition
Dilia – Divadelní a literární agentura, Prague, 1960
Call number at the BM Institute: 1177c
Specification of the edition: 1st edition - large score
Details of this edition
Sources
References Related writings
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Note Libretto by Bohuslav Martinů after Václav Kliment Klicpera. English translation by Walter Schmolka, free English adaptation of the libretto by Tony Kushner (2003); German translation by Ernst Roth, French translation by Bronislaw Horowicz.
Published also by Dilia, Prague 1960.
Title and durata on the title page of the autograph score: "Veselohra na mostě. | Radio-opera. | (Dle V. K. Klicpery.) | (Doba trvání = 30 minut.)". Two pages of Martinů's notes are enclosed to the autograph.
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