Jaroslav Kvapil
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This article is about the Czech poet, playwright, and librettist. For the Czech composer, conductor, and pianist, see Jaroslav Kvapil (composer).
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Jaroslav Kvapil (born in Chudenice on September 25, 1868; died in Prague on January 10, 1950) was a Czech poet, playwright, and librettist. From 1900 he was a director and Dramaturg at the National Theatre in Prague, where he introduced plays by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky into the repertory. Later he was a director at the Vinohrady Theatre (1921–1928). He wrote six plays, but is today chiefly remembered as the librettist of Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka.[1]
Kvapil was the principal author of the Manifesto of Czech writers of 1917, signed by over two hundred leading Czechs, favouring the concept of Czech self-government.[2]
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- ^ The Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas By John W. Freeman, Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), pg 127
- ^ J. Poláček, Manifest českých spisovatelů (2007)
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