Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959): “Les trois souhaits, ou Les vicissitudes de le vie” (1971)

Les trois souhaits, ou Les vicissitudes de le vie”
(The three wishes, or life’s tribulations, Czech Tři přání)
A film opera by Bohuslav Martinů
to a libretto by Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes. Composed mainly in Paris between autumn 1928 and May 1929
First performance: Brno, 16 June 1971
Con: Valerie Chevalier, Gilles Cachemaille, Christian Papis, Helene Perraguin, Valerie Millot, Jocelyne Taillon, Jules Bastin, Georges Gautier, Beatrice Uria-Monzon, Riccardo Cassinelli
Direttore Kent Nagano
Regia Louis Erlo, Alain Maratrat
Opéra de Lyon, 1991