General information
Title CZDivadlo za bránou [auth.]
Subtitle CZopera-balet o 3 dějstvích
Title ENTheatre Behind the Gate
Subtitle ENopera-ballet in 3 acts
Title DEDas Vorstadttheater
Subtitle DEOpera buffa in drei Aufzügen
CategoryStage Works and Film Music
SubcategoryOperas
Halbreich number251
Parts of the composition (movements)1st act: ballet pantomime; 2nd and 3rd act: opera buffa
Durata110'
Instruments2222-4220-Timp-Batt-Xil-Pf-Archi
List of charactersColombine (S), Harlequin (T), Katuška (mS), Pierot (Bar), Night watchman (B), Mayor (B), old man (B), Crone-medicine woman (A), publican (B), singers and dancers, mixed choir (coro misto)
Origin
Place of compositionParis
Year of origin1936
Initiation of composition18.06.1935
Completion of composition30.04.1936
First performance
Performer Balatka, Antonín
Figarová, Miroslava
Gabzdyl, Emerich
Muzika, František
Psota, Ivo
Řezníčková, Marie
Strejček, Otto
Walter, Rudolf
Date of the first performance20.09.1936
Location of the first performanceBrno, National Theatre (Národní divadlo)
Note on the first performanceAntonín Balatka (cond.), Rudolf Walter (direc.), Fratišek Muzika (scen.), Míra Figarová (Kolombína), Emerich Gabzdyl (Harlekýn), Ivo Váňa-Psota (Pierrot), Otto Strejček (publican), Marie Řezníčková (Katuška)
Ensemble Národní divadlo Brno
Autograph deposition
InstitutionBohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička
DepositionPolička
OwnerCentrum Bohuslava Martinů v Poličce
Note on the autograph depostitionThe autograph score and the autograph piano reduction of the first act are held by the Bohuslav Martinů Centre in Polička.
Copyright
CopyrightDilia, Prague
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Note Lyrics by Bohuslav Martinů after Jean Baptist Gaspard Debureau and Jean-Baptist Molier with use of the Czech folk poetry (from the collections by František Bartoš, Karel Jaromír Erben and František Sušil).. Dialogues by Leo Štraus. *** German translation by Robert Brock. *** Dates of completion of the acts according to the autograph score: 1st: 18.06.1935, 2nd: 06.11.1935, 3rd.: 30.4.1936. According to Charlotte Martinů's diary: 2nd: 01.12.1935, 3rd: May 1936, piano reduction: 24.06.1936. ***Published by Dilia, Prague 1956 (piano reduction) and 1961 (score and parts as performing material).
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