Talk:Viola (opera)

Why did we start this article?

According to one source I've seen Smetana only composed 300 bars of this opera. Grove list it as a fragment - they don't have an article on it. There was a concert performance on 15 March 1900 and some kind of stage performance on 11 May 1924 but perhaps this was just of the fragment. John Tyrrell doesn't mention the opera in his article in Grove. Concerned. -- Kleinzach 09:47, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me to be just as viable as the article on Wagner's Die Hochzeit, of which even less remains. Actually, I think it's more viable: the latter also doesn't have an article in Grove, nor has it one in the Viking Guide. There is an article on Viola in the Viking, by John Tyrrell (who wrote the Grove article on Smetana). Its libretto has survived, unlike Die Hochzeit's, and apparently there is a Supraphon recording of what there is of it (about 15 minutes). --GuillaumeTell 11:07, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. If someone has the Viking article then we should be able to make something of this. (Re Die Hochzeit I also wonder about this. There are so many articles we need on bona fide operas, it seems a pity to have stubs on operas that never really existed which can't be developed.) -- Kleinzach 22:40, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I think it warrants an entry but these 300 bars should be mentioned in the main text as the awkward sentence "The composer did some work on it in 1874 and then came back to it in 1883, when he only managed to orchestrate a few scenes" leaves the reader wondering just how much he got done in 1874 and how this compares to the "few scenes" of 1883. 300 bars might be equivalent to perhaps 20 minutes of performance. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:2431:CD67:B960:E034 (talk) 08:57, 21 March 2021 (UTC)