The Marriage / Ženitba
The Marriage / Ženitba
(Bohuslav Martinů, 1953)
Libretto by Bohuslav Martinů based on the play by Nikolai Gogol. Comic Chamber Opera approximately 1 Hour 10 minutes no interval. The action is updated from St. Petersburg 1850 to New York 1953 and depicts a group of Russian émigrés living in America as if they were in the old country.
World premiere sung in English as Martinů wrote it. October 4th, 2009 Brno, Reduta Theatre, Czech Republic
Co-production
of the Brno International Music Festival and National Theatre Brno.
The project is officially part of the Martinu Revisited Project
organised by the Martinu Institute Prague, and is subtitled by Martinů in America.
