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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

KVAPIL, librettista della "Rusalka" di Dvorak

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Jaroslav Kvapil (1897)
Signature of Jaroslav Kvapil (1932)

Jaroslav Kvapil (September 25, 1868 in Chudenice – January 10, 1950 in Prague) 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 repertoire.

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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