Comic-romantic opera in three acts to a libretto by Eliška Krásnohorská.

The Devil’s Wall is the last completed musical-dramatic work by the Litomyšl native. It premiered on 29th October 1882 at the Provisional Theatre under the baton of Adolf Čech and this production of the Moravian-Silesian National Theatre Ostrava was performed at Smetana’s Litomyšl Festival also in the Year of Czech Music 2014.

Presented in Czech with Czech and English surtitles.

“Moldau, in which the day looks, you lovely mirror!

May the anguish that weighs me down, sink into your depths!”

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