The Macropulos Case. Opera in 3 Acts

Act 2 "What's that? Did you find something lese there?"

  • Recorded: 3rd January 1966
  • Record Place: Domovina Studio
  • First Release: 1966
  • (P) 1966 SUPRAPHON
  • Genre: Opera

Artists

  • music by: Leoš Janáček
  • libretto by: Leoš Janáček
  • original lyrics by: Karel Čapek
  • soprano: Libuše Prylová
  • baritone: Přemysl Kočí
  • conductor: Bohumil Gregor
  • musical group: Prague National Theatre Orchestra

Album

Prague National Theatre Orchestra, Bohumil Gregor

Janáček: The Macropulos Case. Opera in 3 Acts

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Digital services

Catalogue Number: 10 8351-2
Published: 1st January 1994
Genre: Opera
Format: 2 disks

Reviews

“At budget or mid-price, this can be confidently recommended. It has an unmistakably authentic feel about it, with acerbic Czech brass playing, the difficult language easily rolling off the tongue, and the conductor and cast obviously totally inside the piece. It deserves success.“
MusicWeb International, June 2024

Disk 1
Leoš Janáček
The Macropulos Case. Opera in 3 Acts
1. Overture 05:13
2. Act 1 "Oh dear, my goodness!" 02:40
3. Act 1 "Where's our friend the lawyer?" 01:35
4. Act 1 "Father, she is so wonderful!" 02:04
5. Act 1 "Come this way please, if you don't mind" 02:11
6. Act 1 "Briefly, could I trouble you to tell me" 02:20
7. Act 1 "Not so fast please" 02:58
8. Act 1 "Have you any proof of this?" 01:46
9. Act 1 "Now listen to me" 01:48
10. Act 1 "AI'm much obliged" 01:11
11. Act 1 "Gone at last!" 02:25
12. Act 1 "Will not" 02:36
13. Act 1 "Now tell me about Ellian Mac Gregor?" 01:29
14. Act 1 "Emilia!" 03:14
15. Act 1 "D'you know, Gregor, there's something you could give me?" 01:19
16. Act 1 "Found it. We'we found it!" 01:28
17. Act 1 "Some proof in writing?" 01:34

Disk 2
Leoš Janáček
The Macropulos Case. Opera in 3 Acts
1. Act 2 "Did you ever see such flowers?" 01:22
2. Act 2 "Is Miss Marty here?" 01:03
3. Act 2 "Janek come on!" 03:02
4. Act 2 "No need to run away!" 00:54
5. Act 2 "You must excuse him" 01:47
6. Act 2 "Ha, ha! Look at those two, what a pair!" 01:22
7. Act 2 "Miss Marty, may I" 02:24
8. Act 2 "Since then my life seems" 01:48
9. Act 2 "And the next! It that the lot?" 01:26
10. Act 2 "At last!" 01:36
11. Act 2 "What's that? Did you find something lese there?" 02:56
12. Act 2 "And can you tell me real name of this Ellian?" 02:15
13. Act 2 "One moment! What is your price for that anvelope?" 02:58
14. Act 2 "Not so, Bertie, not so!" 03:03
15. Act 2 "Sleeping like a drunk woman" 02:39
16. Act 2 "Y'see, Miss Marty" 02:18
17. Act 3 "Well? D'you hear me?" 02:33
18. Act 3 "Mister Prus's servant's waiting outside" 03:23
19. Act 3 "Buenos dias, Maxi" 01:28
20. Act 3 "Allow me to inform you gentlemen" 02:29
21. Act 3 "The seal and the initials E.M." 01:33
22. Act 3 "She's been drinking whisky" 01:07
23. Act 3 "Will you tell us real name?" 01:27
24. Act 3 "How could you live for three hundred years?" 02:39
25. Act 3 "I had to get that paper" 04:21
26. Act 3 "Because I am at the ends of things" 01:51
27. Act 3 "Fetch the doctor!" 03:12
28. Act 3 "It's a great mistake to live so long!" 01:11
29. Act 3 "But my life has come to a stand still" 01:43
30. Act 3 "Why did you come here for that piece of paper?" 01:56