CD84296 Smetana's Hubicka (The Kiss), Wexford Festival 2010
Product Description
CD84296 Smetana's Hubicka (The Kiss), Wexford Festival 2010
Recorded in mpa format from local digital radio and converted to mp3 (320 kbps)
Does not include any Czech-language comments, the Irish national anthem or the
false start before the ouverture was repeated from the beginning. Does include
a word document with Czech accents.
Hubicka (The Kiss - Bedrich Smetana)
Folk opera in two acts Llibretto by Eliška Krásnohorská
based on a story by Karolina Svetlá (1871)
Live broadcast from the Wexford Opera Festival
Sung in Czech
Characters and cast:
Paloucký - Jirí Pribyl
Vendulka, his daughter - Pumeza Matshikiza
Lukáš, young widower - Peter Berger
Tomeš, his brother-in-law - Pavel Baransky
Martinka, Vendulka's elderly aunt - Eliška Weissová
Matouš, old smuggler - Bradley Smoak
Barce, servant of the Palouckýs - Jekaterina Bakanova
Border guard - Robert Anthony Gardiner
Wexford Festival Orchestra and Chorus
conductor - Jaroslav Kyzlink
30 October 2010