Editor: Sourek, Otakar

Orchestral scoring : 2SSolo/ASolo/2TSolo/2BarSolo/2BSolo/Mixed choir/children choir/Orch

Language(s) of work: D

Language(s) of text: D

Product format: vocal score

Binding: Paperback

Pages / Format: 28,0 x 19,5 cm

Opera in three acts op. 84 B 159 (first version) and B 200 (second version) (1887–1897)
Libretto: Marie Èervinková-Riegrová (Czech)

First performance: February 12, 1889, Prague, Národní divadlo (National Theater) (First Version); June 19, 1898, Prague, Národní divadlo (National Theater) (Second version) Translation: Kurt Honolka (German)

Place and time of the action: Country town in Bohemia, during the French Revolution in 1793

People:
Count Wilhelm von Harasov - Bass
Bohuš, his son - Baritone
Adolf, his nephew - baritone
Julia, Bohuš's wife - soprano
Filip, castle manager - Bass
Jiøí, a young hunter - tenor
Benda, teacher and rain choir, composer - tenor
Terinka, his daughter - soprano
Lotinka, governor in the castle - alto
choir / ballet / children's choir: citizens, musicians, guards, village youth, country folk, school children

Orchestra: 3 (Picc), 2 (Eh), 2 (BKlar), 2, Kfag - 4.2 , 3,1 - Pk, Schlg (3) - Hfe - Org - Str incidental
music (from the orchestra): 2Picc, 2Trp, BPos, Schlg (2), Str

Duration: approx. 2h 30 '