Vilem Blodek - In The Well

Description

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 its original sonic glory. The soloists were Milada Subrtova, Stepanka Stepanova, Ivo Zidek, and Zdenek Kroupa. The chorus and orchestra of the Prague National Theatre were conducted by Frantisek Skvor 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 Subrtova, a singer at the Prague National Theatre.