MARTINU : MIRANDOLINA

Radio New Zealand Concert network
Sunday 24th of August 2010  6.03 - 8 pm

INTRODUCTION (Wiki)
INTRODUCTION
LIBRETTO (Italian)
RECORDING (You Tube 104 min, audio)
LA LOCANDIERA (the play, video, You Tube)

MARTINU: Mirandolina, an opera in three acts
Mirandolina.......................... Katerina Knezíková
Ortensia................................ Eva Drizgová-Jirusová
Dejanira................................ Anna Nitrová
Conte d'Albafliorita.............. Josef Moravec
Cavaliere di Ripafratta......... Jan Willem Bajlet
Marchese di Forlimpopoli.... Martin Gurbal
Fabrizio................................. Ales Briscein
Servant.................................. Ondrej Koplik
National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Orch/Marko Ivanovic
 (recorded by Czech Radio)

Mirandolina is a comic opera in three acts by Bohuslav Martinů, with an Italian libretto by the composer after Carlo Goldoni's comedy The Mistress of the Inn (La Locandiera, 1753). The opera was composed in 1953-4, and first performed in 1959. Other composers who have set it to music are Antonio Salieri, Simon Mayr, and Henry Kimball Hadley.

Mirandolina, a coquettish innkeeper, is courted by noblemen (Conte, Marchese, Cavaliere) but she decides to marry Fabrizio the waiter.