Frano Parac: Judita

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Label
BR Klassik
Release Date
October 10, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Frano Parac
    • PERFORMER
      Munich Radio Orchestra, Croatian Radio Choir (HRT Choir), Sofija Petrovic, Evelin Novak, Diana Halle
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I Scene 1: Bože pomiluj nas! (Chorus, Akior, Eliakim, Ozija)

      Composer: Frano Parać

      Ensemble: Croatian Radio and Television Choir, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Matteo Ivan Rašić, Sava Vemić, Stjepan Franetović

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    2. Act I Scene 2: Bog, sud postav meu tobom i nami (First priest, Second priest, Eliakim, Ozija, Chorus)

      Composer: Frano Parać

      Ensemble: Croatian Radio and Television Choir, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Mislav Lucić, Andro Bojanić, Sava Vemić, Stjepan Franetović

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    3. Act I Scene 3: Bože! Svemogi naš (Chorus, Ozija, priests, Judita)

      Composer: Frano Parać

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Stjepan Franetović, Mislav Lucić, Andro Bojanić, Sofija Petrović

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    4. Act I Scene 4: Kudi hitaš, Abra, za ino ne haješ? (Ruta, Abra, Judita)

      Composer: Frano Parać

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Evelin Novak, Diana Haller, Sofija Petrović

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    5. Act II Scene 5: Od kud? Kamo? (Chorus, Judita, Oloferne)

      Composer: Frano Parać

      Ensemble: Croatian Radio and Television Choir, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Sofija Petrović, Ivica Čikeš

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    6. Act II Scene 6: Zaćinjajmo pjesni! (Oloferne, Chorus, Judita, Vagav)

      Composer: Frano Parać

      Ensemble: Croatian Radio and Television Choir, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Ivica Čikeš, Sofija Petrović, Matija Meić

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    7. Act II Scene 7: Ča je to, ča je to? (Chorus, Judita, Akior, Eliakim)

      Composer: Frano Parać

      Ensemble: Croatian Radio and Television Choir, Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Performer: Sofija Petrović, Matteo Ivan Rašić, Sava Vemić

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić

    8. Carmina Krležiana (Dance of the Baroness): Ples Barunice

      Composer: Frano Parać

      Ensemble: Münchner Rundfunkorchester

      Conductor: Ivan Repušić


On December 1, 2024, Ivan Repusic, chief conductor of the Munich Radio Orchestra, conducted a concert performance of Frano Parac's opera Judita at Munich's Prinzregententheater. This two-act, seven-scene opera is about the siege of a city by brutal foreign invaders. The biblical story of Judith, who liberates her homeland of Bethulia from it's Assyrian occupiers by killing Holofernes, certainly has parallels with Croatian history, particularly that of the city of Split. From the mid-15th century onwards, the country repeatedly fought against incursions by the Ottoman Empire - and Split in Dalmatia was particularly vulnerable to the attacks of the Turks, who advanced to it's gates. The poet Marko Marulic (1450-1524) alludes to these events in allegorical form in his epic Judita, completed in 1501. One of the earliest poetic works in the Croatian language, it established Marulic's reputation as the father of Croatian literature. To celebrate the 550th anniversary of the author's birth in 2000, and in commemoration of the 1, 700th anniversary of the foundation of Split, Frano Parac, a composer born in Split in 1948, chose the epic Judita as the basis for his first opera. It premiered on July 14, 2000 at the Croatian National Theatre in Split. The live recording made in December 2023 is now being released on CD by BR-KLASSIK, supplemented by Dance of the Baroness (Ples Barunice) from Parac's 1985 dramatic ballet Carmina Krle�iana, based on texts by the expressionist-modernist writer Miroslav Krle�a. First published in 1990 in a piano version, the dance is a rewarding and effective piece for pianists - and it's orchestral version is equally impressive.