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Antonín Dvořák composed over 200 works, most of which have survived. They include nine symphonies, ten operas, four concertos and numerous vocal, chamber and keyboard works. His most famous pieces of music include the Ninth Symphony (From the New World), the Cello Concerto, the American String Quartet, the Slavonic Dances, and the opera Rusalka.
Pages in category "Operas by Antonín Dvořák" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In the five seasons from 2008 to 2013 it was performed by opera companies worldwide far more than all of Dvořák's other operas combined. [ 3 ] The most popular excerpt from Rusalka is the soprano aria, the "Song to the Moon" (" Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém ") for the title character in act 1, which is often performed in concert and recorded ...
Dvořák played viola in the orchestra beginning in 1862. Dvořák could hardly afford concert tickets, and playing in the orchestra gave him a chance to hear music, mainly operas. [24] In July 1863, Dvořák played in a program devoted to the German composer Richard Wagner, who conducted the orchestra.
heroic opera in 3 acts; libretto by Carl Theodor Körner: 16a – 1870: Tragická (Dramatická) ouvertura b moll: Tragic (Dramatic) Overture in B ♭ minor: orchestra: overture to the opera B. 16, Alfred: 17 – 1869: Smyčcový kvartet č. 2 B dur: String Quartet No. 2 in B ♭ major: 2 violins, viola and cello 18 – 1869: Smyčcový kvartet ...
Dimitrij is a Czech-language grand opera in four acts by Antonín Dvořák (B. 127, Op. 64), set to a libretto by Marie Červinková-Riegrová, with a plot derived from Ferdinand Mikovec's Dimitr Ivanovič, itself based upon Friedrich Schiller's incomplete Demetrius. The work was first performed in Prague in 1882.
The Devil and Kate, Op. 112, B.201, (Čert a Káča in Czech) is an opera in three acts by Antonín Dvořák to a Czech libretto by Adolf Wenig.It is based on a farce by Josef Kajetán Tyl, [citation needed] and the story also had been treated as the fairy tale Devil and Káča by Božena Němcová.
Jakobín, [a] or The Jacobin [b], is an operatic pastoral comedy in three acts by Antonín Dvořák, his Opus 84 (B. 159).Its Czech libretto by Marie Červinková-Riegrová employs characters from Alois Jirásek's story At the Ducal Court but in a plot of her devising.