Šárka (Janáček)

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Operas by Leoš Janáček
Šárka (1887) The Beginning of a Romance (1894) Jenůfa (1904) Osud (1907) The Excursions of Mr. Brouček (1920) Káťa Kabanová (1921) The Cunning Little Vixen (1924) The Makropulos Affair (1926) From the House of the Dead (1930)
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Šárka is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by Julius Zeyer, based on Bohemian legends of Šárka in Dalimil’s Chronicle. Written in 1887, the opera lay unproduced for many years and was first performed at the Brno Theatre in Brno on November 11, 1925 in honor of Janáček’s 70th birthday. The composer had never completed the work; after the success of his later operas Šárka was revised and the orchestration completed by his pupil Osvald Chlubna. Janáček himself tasked Chlubna with the job, in preparation for the opera's eventual publication.

In 2000, Jiří Zahrádka edited a new edition of the score.

[edit] Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast,11 November 1925 (Conductor: - )
Castava	contralto
Ctirad	tenor
Hosta	contralto
Libina	soprano
Mlada	soprano
Premysl	baritone
Radka	mezzo-soprano
Šárka	soprano
Svatava	soprano
Vitoraz	bass
Vlasta	mezzo-soprano