Zelenski Goplana

[Alan Howe]

I note that Zelenski's opera is now available from Premiereopera Italy:
http://premiereopera.net/product/goplana-by-zelenski-warsaw-2016/

...and that (presumably the same performance) can be heard on YouTube, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJZ5jmwylA

[Mark Thomas]

Thanks Alan. We had a recoding of an earlier Polish radio broadcast in our Downloads Board years ago, but that seems to have vanished. The YouTube video of the performance is passable, and even has English subtitles.

[jdperdrix]

Same performance than the youtube one, but better quality on the opera platform: http://www.theoperaplatform.eu/fr/opera/zelenski-goplana

[Alan Howe]

Just received my copy from Premiereopera Italy - and really lovely music it is too. I think we've known for some time now that there were several top-flight composers preceding the generation of Szymanowski, e.g. in particular Noskowski and Zelenski. This opera is further proof of the latter's mastery.

[Alan Howe]

Oh, and the idiom? Somewhere west of Tchaikovsky (there's an especially fine tenor aria approx. half an hour into track 2 of CD1 that will remind you of Lenski's aria in Eugene Onegin). Gounod and Massenet may be in the mix too. In short: magical, memorable, melodic - and incidentally, beautifully sung. This performance really ought to be made available commercially. It'd be a hit...

[M. Yaskovsky]

Another way of obtaining this score, now on DVD-video. And very cheap....
http://www.premiereopera.com/dvd14208goplanazelenski.aspx

[Alan Howe]

And now there's a forthcoming release on DVD:
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8934446--wladyslaw-zelenski-goplana

[Alan Howe]

For anyone curious about this superb opera, go to YouTube for a performance recorded back in 2000:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWovqOQMrEs

Report on the new DVD forthcoming...