FULL The Marriage (Martinů) Brno 2009 Merklová Tolas Stary Zerhauova

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: The Marriage   
• Composer: Martinů Bohuslav   
• Libretto: Bohuslav Martinů based on the play by Gogol    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Mozart Sal Reduta Theatre Brno, Czech Republic, Narodni Divadlo Brno (National Theatre Brno)  
• Recorded: October 2009
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Tereza Merklová, Jakub Tolas, Mojmir Stary, Jitka Zerhauova, Adriana Hlasova, Petr Levicek, Tomas Krejcirik, Zoltan Korda
• Conductor: Jakub Klecker  
• Orchestra: Orchestr Janackovy Opery  
• Stage Director: Pamela Howard  
• Stage Designer: Pamela Howard  
• Costume Designer: Pamela Howard  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Narodni Divadlo Brno  
• Date Published: 2009  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The Marriage is a comic opera in 2 acts by Bohuslav Martinů, to the composer’s own libretto, after the play of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. The opera was commissioned for television by the NBC, and the NBC Opera Theatre performed the work’s world premiere on their television program NBC TV Opera Theatre for a national broadcast in the United States on 2 July 1953. The opera has subsequently been adapted for the stage