A happy homecoming for a neglected Czech legend

Jiří Brückler (Schwanda)

Jiří Sulženko (The Devil)

Jana Šrejma Kačírková (Dorotka), Martin Bárta and Vít Šantora (Soldiers)

Jiří Brückler (Schwanda), Martin Šrejma (Babinský) and Jiří Sulženko (The Devil)

David Bosh

Von Frank Kuznik, 10 Oktober 2022

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“it’s like watching two different productions that have crashed into each other”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: National Theatre (Národní divadlo), Prague, am 6 Oktober 2022

Weinberger, Schwanda, der Dudelsackpfeifer

Prague National Theatre Opera

Zbyněk Müller, Musikalische Leitung

Vladimír Morávek, Regie, Licht

Martin Chocholoušek, Bühnenbild

Zimula Sylva Hanáková, Kostüme

Prague National Theatre Orchestra

Ondřej Hučín, Dramaturgie

Jiří Brückler, Schwanda

Svatopluk Sem, Schwanda

Alžběta Poláčková, Dorota

Jana Šrejma Kačírková, Dorota

Martin Šrejma, Babinský

Jaroslav Březina, Babinský

Ester Pavlů, Königin

Kateřina Jalovcová, Königin

Roman Janál, Magier, Zweiter Landsknecht

Martin Bárta, Magier, Zweiter Landsknecht

Jiří Sulženko, Teufel

František Zahradníček, Teufel

Ondřej Koplík, des Teufels Famulus, Höllenhauptmann

Aleš Voráček, des Teufels Famulus, Höllenhauptmann

Vladimír Doležal, Richter

Dušan Růžička, Richter

Vít Šantora, Scharfrichter, Erster Landsknecht

Václav Sibera, Scharfrichter, Erster Landsknecht

Lucie Mertová, Choreographie

Jan Bubák, Chorleitung

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.

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