Among the goodies I won from Chicago Opera Theatre in a recent Twitter! contest was a 2001 recording of Robert Kurka’s 1956 opera The Good Soldier Schweik based on the novel by Jaroslav Hašek.  It’s a very interesting piece.  It’s on an odd sort of scale with 26 solo parts, here managed by a team of 12 singers, plus chorus.  It uses a fifteen piece woodwind and brass band with no strings at all.  I’m guessing it could easily be presented in quite a wide range of theatres.

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