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Dimitrij | |
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Grand opera by Antonín Dvořák | |
Librettist | Marie Červinková-Riegrová |
Language | Czech |
Based on | Ferdinand Mikovec's Dimitr Ivanovič |
Premiere | 8 October 1882 New Czech Theatre, Prague |
Dimitrij is a Czech-language grand opera in four acts by Antonín Dvořák (B. 127, Op. 64), set to a libretto by Marie Červinková-Riegrová, with a plot derived from Ferdinand Mikovec's Dimitr Ivanovič, itself based upon Friedrich Schiller's incomplete Demetrius. The work was first performed in Prague in 1882.