Goplana (opera)
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Goplana is an 1896 Polish opera by Władysław Żeleński, to a Polish libretto by Ludomil German after on the 1839 drama Balladyna by Juliusz Słowacki.[1]
Plot
[edit]The folk tale plot follows closely Juliusz Słowacki's original drama and concerns the brutal fate of several humans - principally the sisters Balladyna and Alina - after the nymph Goplana interferes in their affairs.
Recording
[edit]DVD Goplana Soloists, Polish National Opera, Grzegorz Nowak, Frederick Chopin Institute 2021
References
[edit]- ^ Beata Bolesławska The Symphony and Symphonic Thinking in Polish Music Since 1956 2019 "Żeleński himself was the author of several operas, including Goplana (1897). See Władysław Żeleński. Goplana. Opera romantyczna w trzech aktach/Romantic Opera in Three Acts, ed. and introduced by Grzegorz Zieziula"