Janáček: Příhody Lišky Bystroušky Act 3 finale.

[kicyro]

"What y-y-you think you're seeing is n-n-not me, it's m-m-my grandpa"

[IndIanOfficial]

This is a wonderful scene. the new york philharmonic has just performed this over the last few days and when i first heard this finale i was so moved. It has been a pleasure to hear this finale again and again for the last few nights. This is a great video

[traplican]

Almost every rejoinder is a small joke or racy curse so I have the time of my life during reading of the libretto but it is difficult to translate it (and my English isn't good). For example:

PARSON: Non des mulierti corpus tuum!

FORESTER: Čerta rozumím! Kdyby to byla aspoň myslivecká latina! (Hell I undersood! If would be at least the huntsman latin!

Huntsman latin is 1. Huntsman terminology 2. Huntsman stories told with extensive exaggeration.

[traplican]

Maybe will be interesting for you that the libretto of this opera is written in dialect. Not exactly "pure" Haná dialect but by common speech which is spoken north of Brno and which is mix of the standard Czech with Haná dialect.

[polukin]

moravian language exactly it is so nice hear and understand XD am fascinating thank you NY

[BritinIsrael]

One the most moving scenes from all 20th century opera!

Janacek just has to be the most underated opera composer of the last century. To think when i was a student ( in late 60's early 70's)i went to peformances of his operas with row upon row of empty seats.Even at Covent Garden when Sylvia Fisher sang Kostelnicka so magnificantly there were loads of empty seats.

Thanks to Charles Mackerras and others Janacek operas have now become loved world wide.

[salpetr]

Guess, main reason, why is Janacek`s music so touching - he is never sentimental...he is cruel or sensitive, but always true...like life...

I love him...

[billyguns2]

One of the greatest scenes in all of opera!

[platero55]

Count me in as another listener who gets misty-eyed over this final scene!

[freakylittlegnome]

I cried listening to this. I've raised my kids on this music it's masterful. true art to pull at ones heart the way it does. I feel after listening to the grand finale like a great burden has somehow been lifted off me. transcendent is the word I'd use as well.

[drtmuir]

I can't listen to this too much-- it's actually too beautiful. It kills me every time.

[grig035]

There is simply no greater or more luscious or more inspired sequence in all of twentieth-century opera.

[balanchinemachine]

Hear, hear. The magnificent, transcendent conclusion never fails to move me to tears.

[sidecars]

Stunningly beautiful.

[kevycanavan]

i was in the opera northern ireland production when i was a kid

brings back memories...amazing music

[grig035]

Is this Thomas Allen and Sir Charles Mackerras?

[CzarDodon]

Oh yes :-)