''Les larmes du couteau'' in Czech ''Slzy nože'' ('tears of the knife') is a 1928 opera by

Bohuslav Martinů Bohuslav Jan Martinů (; December 8, 1890 – August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer of modern classical music. He wrote 6 symphonies, 15 operas, 14 ballet scores and a large body of orchestral, chamber, vocal and instrumental works. He bec ...

. The Gramophone - Volume 77 - Page 118 - 2000 "Les larmes du couteau is a strange surrealist piece (Eleonora is in love with a hanged man; her death - she dies only temporarily - brings him back to life, but he rejects her) but also one of Martinu's most promiscuous flirtations with 1920s modernism. A spikily lively manner, rooted in Stravinsky and his Parisian followers, is seasoned with popular idioms: foxtrots and a bluesy, Weill-ish aria for Eleonora; a nostalgic off-stage accordion gives a foretaste of Martinu's much later Julietta."

Recordings

*1999 - Martinu: Slzy nože - sung in Czech - Les larmes du couteau; with The Voice of the Forest 1CD Hana Jonášová, Lenka Smídová, Roman Janál, Helena Kaupová, Jaroslav Brezina, Vladimír Okénko; Chamber Choir, Prague Philharmonia Jirí Belohlávek Supraphon *2022 - Martinů: Larmes de couteau ; with

Comedy on the Bridge ''Veselohra na mostě (Comedy on the Bridge) is a radio opera in one act by Bohuslav Martinů to a Czech libretto by the composer, based on the comedy by Václav Kliment Klicpera and composed in 1935 in Polička.Rybka, James (2011). ''Bohuslav Mart ...

. Esther Dierkes, Elena Tsallagova, Björn Bürger, Adam Palka, Maria Riccarda Wesseling, Stine Marie Fischer, Andrew Bogard, Michael Smallwood, Saatsorchester Stuttgart, Cornelius Meister Capriccio 1CD 2022

References

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