12 Aug 2008
The Two Widows at Edinburgh Festival Theatre
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article4498058.ece
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A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article4498058.ece
Richard Morrison [Times Online, 11 August 2008]
This year the Edinburgh International Festival looks east. Not as far east as Beijing, but to the fertile fields of Eastern Europe and Russia. It's fitting that the first staged opera is by Smetana, father of Czech nationalist music. Not his frenetically jolly Bartered Bride, but his later (1874) and deeper Two Widows.