Hubicka (The Kiss) - Czech Opera - Smetana - English Subtitles

Hubicka, (The Kiss) is a Czech comic opera by Bedrich Smetana. Re-upload - fixed some technical errors. I put English closed captions to it for the benefit and education of English-speakers.
Litomysl Smetana Festival 06/22/2007
Conductor: Zbyněk Müller
Vendulka: Dana Burešová
Otec Palouký: Ludek Vele
Lukaš: Tomáš Čherný
Tomeš: Roman Janál
Martinka: Yvonne Škávrová
Barče: Marie Fajtová
Strážník: Jan Markvart

[@GLADORISIMA]

krása opera

[@StevenFuller55]

Good Lord. Barce's aria at 1:39:00! How have I never heard of this? It is complicated and wonderful. Thanks for the English!

[@opera.english.subtitles]

So glad you like it!😊Thanks for commenting.

[@drKozelnik]

Breathtaking

[@peterburdge4138]

I, too, cannot understand why Barče’s aria seems almost unknown in the West. I first came across it a few days ago in a performance by the late and much-lamented Patricia Janečková and that led me to look for the opera itself. Many thanks to abd0987 for providing the subtitles.
There appear to be no professional recordings of Patricia singing it and the best I’ve found is in this amateur video of her in an open-air performance in Berlin. Don’t be put off by the shaky start - it gets better. Barče’s aria begins at 19.30: th-cam.com/video/X40_VjP0xZM/w-d-xo.html

[@StevenFuller55]

Thanks for that recording. Great! Did not know about Patricia J before this either. Now I do.

[@peterburdge4138]

@@StevenFuller55 Happy to have made the introduction! Bucfan has helpfully compiled an almost-complete playlist which enables you, if you wish, to follow Patricia from child prodigy to the very end: th-cam.com/play/PLRkXgEtCqIyXdRs4pixfReBb0Xosd4bIK.html
The only complete opera performance of hers is of Handel’s Acis and Galatea (perhaps more of a masque than an opera): th-cam.com/video/r8TiHYoHV0I/w-d-xo.html

[@peterburdge4138]

In the description above, the role of Barče is attributed to Marie Pajtová, but I think it should be Marie Fajtová. She is very good indeed!

[@opera.english.subtitles]

Thanks! I finally had the time to investigate. I fixed it. Thank you for watching and commenting.

[@gwkodiak]

Thanks

[@opera.english.subtitles]

You're welcome. 🙂

[@enyel-z6j]

Te acabas de ganar mi suscripción 👍

[@opera.english.subtitles]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@octagone5852]

13:53 Zde můj svakr Lukaš

[@octagone5852]

Tenor aria:
58:42 Hrjate mi tu nejskočnejši

[@barbara_brezna]

1:56:17