Jessika_(opera)

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Jessika (opera)

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Jessika is a 1905 Czech-language opera by Josef Bohuslav Foerster to a libretto after Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and named after the character Jessica in that play.[1]

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    Michael Neill, David Schalkwyk, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy, 2016, p. 749: "Above all, the playwright has inspired major works in the opera: Bedřich Smetana's unfinished Viola (1874‒83), J. B. Foerster's Jessika (1904), Iša Krejčí's Pozdvižení v Efesu (The Turmoil in Ephesus, after The Comedy of Errors, 1943), Karel ...
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