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Zdeněk Fibich’s opera Hedy as a “Czech Tristan”Between Wagnerism and Verismo
Jiří Kopecký
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2013.10.003
Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Fibich’s opera Hedy (premiered in 1896) was received as a succesfull work, although many reviewers did not know how to call the prevailing style (mixture of wagnerianism, Grand opéra, verismo exotico, the second Don Giovanni composed for Prague because of reminiscences on Mozart’s dramma giocoso). It is not uneasy to find clear musical hints on Puccini in Fibich’s next opera Šárka (premiered 1897), but it was already in Hedy where drastic and geographically clearly determined subject was mixed with Wagnerian gesture of love extasy, which is everywhere and endless. Obviously, Fibich, as a mature artist, was able to connect rules of both Czech declamation and contemporary veristic fashion. This study tries to identify main stylistic features which shaped Fibich’s fifth opera, and analyses receptive expectations from the side of Czech audience and its influence on Fibich’s opera composition.
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