Blodek: V studni / In the Well

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Supraphon
Release Date
April 25, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Vilem Blodek
    • PERFORMER
      Stepanka Stepanova, Milada Subrtova, Ivo Zidek, Zdenek Kroupa, Prague National Theatre Opera Chorus
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Overture

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: František Škvor

    2. Scene 1: Introduction: Aj, zlý to čas (Zpěv Veruny) (Oh, times are hard now) (Veruna)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Štěpánka Štěpánová

      Conductor: František Škvor

    3. Scene 2: Aj, co sem vede Lidunku? (So what did you come for, Lidunka?) (Veruna, Lidunka)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Štěpánka Štěpánová, Milada Šubrtová

      Conductor: František Škvor

    4. Scene 2: A co ti o mně pravili (What they told you about me) (Veruna, Lidunka)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Štěpánka Štěpánová, Milada Šubrtová

      Conductor: František Škvor

    5. Scene 2: Mladá láska, to je ráj (Young love that's a paradise) (Veruna, Lidunka)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Štěpánka Štěpánová, Milada Šubrtová

      Conductor: František Škvor

    6. Scene 3: Dnes svatojanský večer je (It's St. John's Eve today) (Lidunka, Veruna, Janek, Vojtěch)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Milada Šubrtová, Štěpánka Štěpánová, Zdenek Kroupa, Ivo Žídek

      Conductor: František Škvor

    7. Scene 3: Již na hory vystoupí večerní zář (The evening light rises in the mountains) (Lidunka, Vojtěch, Janek, Veruna)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Milada Šubrtová, Ivo Žídek, Zdenek Kroupa, Štěpánka Štěpánová

      Conductor: František Škvor

    8. Scene 4: Chce vidět v studni tvář (She wants to see the face) (Vojtěch)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Ivo Žídek

      Conductor: František Škvor

    9. Scene 5: Aj, to bude švanda! (This is going to be fun) (Janek)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Zdenek Kroupa

      Conductor: František Škvor

    10. Scene 6: Intermezzo: Východ měsíce (Moonrise)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: František Škvor

    11. Scene 7: Svatojanské ohnì rozžeme po horách (We'll light the St. John's fires on the mountains) (Chorus)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: František Škvor

    12. Scene 7: My tady počkáme (We shall wait here) (Chorus, Lidunka)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Milada Šubrtová

      Conductor: František Škvor

    13. Scene 7: Zapálíme si po horách hranice velikánské (We shall light the great bonfires on the montains) (Chorus)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: František Škvor

    14. Scene 8: Aj, jděte jen, jděte jen, jděte jen (Oh, just go, just go, just go) (Janek)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Zdenek Kroupa

      Conductor: František Škvor

    15. Scene 9: Ty zlatá, zlatá Veruno (Golden, golden Veruna) (Vojtěch, Janek)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Ivo Žídek, Zdenek Kroupa

      Conductor: František Škvor

    16. Scene 10: Svatojanské ohně hoří (St. John's fires glow) (Chorus)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: František Škvor

    17. Scene 10: Volám v háje, v lesy (I call in the holts and forests) (Lidunka, Vojtěch)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Milada Šubrtová, Ivo Žídek

      Conductor: František Škvor

    18. Scene 10: Dlouho jsem již čekala (I have been waiting for a long time) (Lidunka, Vojtěch)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Milada Šubrtová, Ivo Žídek

      Conductor: František Škvor

    19. Scene 11: Finale: Svatojanské ohně září (St. John's fires glow) (Chorus, Lidunka)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Milada Šubrtová

      Conductor: František Škvor

    20. Scene 11: Běda! Běda! To čert! (Woe! Woe! It's the devil!) (Chorus, Janek, Vojtěch, Lidunka)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Zdenek Kroupa, Ivo Žídek, Milada Šubrtová

      Conductor: František Škvor

    21. Scene 11: My si spolu rozumíme (We understand one another) (Lidunka, Vojtěch)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Performer: Milada Šubrtová, Ivo Žídek

      Conductor: František Škvor

    22. Scene 11: Zapálíme si po horách hranice velikánské (We shall light the great bonfires on the mountains) (Chorus)

      Composer: Vilem Blodek

      Ensemble: Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague National Theatre Orchestra

      Conductor: František Škvor


For the Year of Czech Music and for the 150th anniversary of the death of the Czech composer Vilem Blodek, Supraphon has prepared a real treat for opera lovers in the form of the 1959 stereo recording of the opera In the Well (V studni), never before released on any physical medium. The recording was released briefly in the first half of the 1960s on LP records, but only in a mono- phonic version. After that, it disappeared from the catalogue for several deca- des. Only now, nearly 66 years since the recording was made and after careful restoration of the sound from the original tapes, this rarity from the early days of stereophonic recording technology is being released in all of it's original sonic glory. The soloists were Milada Šubrtova, Štepanka Štepanova, Ivo Židek, and Zdenek Kroupa. The chorus and orchestra of the Prague National Theatre were conducted by František Škvor in his only complete operatic recording in the Supraphon catalogue. At the same time, this release also commemorates the recent 100th anniversary of the birth of Milada Šubrtova, a singer at the Prague National Theatre. On CD for the first time in the original stereophonic version