Opera Live Transmissions in the Beginning of the Broadcasting in Czechoslovakia
Priame prenosy opier v začiatkoch rozhlasového vysielania v Československu

Summary/Abstract: The space dedicated to the opera production in the programme offer of the radio broadcasting is the subject matter of analysis of the famous opera critic and theorist M. Blahynka. He is dealing with the position of opera production in the radio broadcasting „Radio-journal“ after its origination (1923, in Slovakia in 1926), and in the course of the first decennium. The first live opera transmission in the Czechoslovak radio broadcasting was Smetana´s opera Dve vdovy (Two Widows). The transmission was made from the Prague National Theatre on 12-th February 1925. The first opera transmitted by Bratislava was Verdi´s Traviata. The transmission from the Slovak National Theatre was performed on the second day of the regular radio broadcasting in Bratislava on 2-nd October 1926. Live opera trasmissions occured in the radio broadcasting 50 or 60 times a year. In June 1927 the live transmission from the theatre in Košice took place. It was the operetta Orfeus v podsvetí (Orpheus in Underworld). The author is drawing attention to the most significant live transmissions of performances of the National Theatre in Prague, Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava, next is suggesting nation-wide broadcastings of the Slovak National Theatre opera under conduction of O. Nedbal in Prague, also a unique transmission of performance Predaná nevesta (Sold Bride) in the Comic Opera in Paris.

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