The National Theater will present a fairytale opera for the whole family, Švanda the piper
After eighty-nine years, the National Theater Opera and the State Opera will stage Jaromír Weinberger’s fairytale opera Švanda the Piper, subtitled The Devil Lost, He Regrets!
The work, which was performed by New York’s Metropolitan Opera or London’s Covent Garden in the 1930s, is being prepared by a conductor at the National Theater Zbyněk Müller director Vladimir Morávek, the author of one of the most successful National Theater productions in history – Mozart’s Magic Flute. Also Swindle piper, a mix of fantastic fairy tale and grotesque, will offer the audience full arms of “Moravian” imagination and a special scenic half-dream. The show is designed as a family event for adults and children from ten years of age.
An opera based on the motifs of a popular fairy tale Strakonicky piper, or Wild Women’s Feast Josefa Kajetán Tyl is a fairy tale with everything in it – with an uncomplicated story, genuine characters on the side of good or evil and of course with a happy ending, everything is emphasized by lovely melodies and a spectacular conclusion with a quote from a beautiful Czech song In our yard. The stage features larger-than-life animals, a flying angel and a number of child actors. The fairy tale about love and magic bagpipes was translated into seventeen languages and at the turn of the twenties and thirties of the last century, it traveled literally all over the world: Vienna, Munich, Berlin, London, New York, and even Buenos Aires.
Swindle piper i’m a great tip to visit the opera with your kids! Premieres on October 6 and 9, 2022 in the historic building of the National Theatre. The project is part of the Musica non grata series realized with the financial support of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Czech Republic.
More information and tickets at www.musicanongrata.cz
Photo: Ilona Sochorová