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Prague Premiere of “Deaf Empire” Celebrates the Father of Czech Music
A new English-language play centers on Bedřich Smetana, the composer and Czech national hero from whose extreme personal loss emerged orchestral genius
Nationalism, art, revolution and what it means to be Czech are questions that burned through Prague society in the 1800s.
The notion of what it is to be Czech, and art as the urgent heartbeat of nationalism, unfolds in this play which will have its Prague premiere on March 3, 4, 5, 9 and 10 Divadlo Kolowrat, Kolowratský Palác.
Smetana insisted on the validity of Czech melodies and themes in classical music and opera, and achieved significant social prominence. But he was not immune to tragedy. The death of his wife and children and complete loss of hearing seemingly destroyed the composer’s career.
William Valerián (Úplné Zatmění, Klicperovo Divadlo) stars as the revivalist poet Jan Neruda who, alongside Smetana, becomes enchanted by the pursuit of nationalism through art.
“Smetana’s story is inherently dramatic, from his struggle to be taken seriously as a Czech composer, to the deaths of his wife and children, and his perseverance during his own physical and mental decline,” said Delbos.
“Deaf Empire explores the complex conflicts of
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Not many of Bedrich Smetana’s compositions are especially well known and as a composer he could not be said to have been particularly innovative or influential.
But in the Czech Republic, Che is regarded as something of a musical icon. He is known as the father of Czech music and yet Dvorak is by far the best known, and I suppose more important, composer – someone once said that Smetana created a Czech musical school and Dvorak made it popular.
These days in the Czech Republic Smetana is revered probably not so much because of the quality of his music but because he himself hoped that his work would be closely identified with Czech nationality.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, as modern nation-states emerged, music for many composers became a means of asserting their national identity. Before that, it’s probably true to say that music of the Baroque of Classical periods has a style that cannot be pinned down to one particular country. In time, though, musicians came to define themselves in terms of their nationalities as much as the genres in which they worked. And so we can think of Glinka and Russia, Sibelius and Finland, Copland and the United States, Vaughan Williams and England, de Falla and Spain and, the subject of today’s programme, Bedrich Sme