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The Cunning Peasant

BBC Radio 3
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(Selma Sedlak)
A comic opera in two acts Music by Dvorak
Text by JOSEF OTAKA VESELY (sung in Czech)
(first UK broadcast)
Dvorak's fifth opera, written in 1877, shows how the true love of two poor peasants, aided by a scheming old lady, thwarts a predatory Count and restores him to his wife.
CZECH RADIO CHORUS
CZECH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, PRAGUE conducted by FRANTISEK VAJNAR (Czech Radio recording)

Contributors

Unknown:
Josef Otaka Vesely
Conducted By:
Frantisek Vajnar
Martin, a rich peasant:
Karel Berman (bass)
Martin, a rich peasant:
Karel Prusa (bass)
Betuska, his daughter:
Jitka Sobehartova (soprano)
Jenik, who loves her:
Josef Kundlak (tenor)
Veruna, the cunning peasant:
Marie Vesela (contralto)
Vaclav, the son of a rich villager:
Leo Marian Vodicka (ten)
Count, attracted to Betuska:
Vaclav Zitek (baritone)
Jean, his valet, who also lusts after her:
Miroslav Kopp (ten)
Countess:
Eva Depoltova (sop)
Berta, her chamber-maid:
Bozena Effenberkova (sop)
Source: Radio Times

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