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The Naples Philharmonic Performs Zdeněk Fibich's The Water Goblin

Dec. 01, 2018

The Naples Philharmonic Performs Zdeněk Fibich's <em>The Water Goblin</em>

On December 6-8, the Naples Philharmonic will perform Zdeněk Fibich's dramatic melodrama The Water Goblin, conducted by Andrey Boreyko, featuring narrator Elaine Newton. The concert is part of Artis–Naples' 2018-19 season theme, "Fashioning Influence". In an interview for Radio Praha, musicologist Patricia Goodson noted:

"[The Water Goblin] is probably Fibich's best-known piece, set to poetry by the great 19th-century Czech poet, Karel Jaromir Erben...and it shows Fibich really at his best at tone-painting and mood-setting. And it really is a very moody and dramatic piece, very gloomy, and in the end horrifying! In the beginning, the Water Goblin, who is an evil presence, is sitting by the lake sewing and talking about how he is sewing his wedding costume - green cloth and red shoes. A young woman is mysteriously lured to the Water Goblin's lake, and he seduces her - in fact, drowns her, I suppose. She goes to live with him in the watery depths and they have a child. But of course she longs to go back to her mother and to her life on land, so grudgingly he permits her to do this, although only under certain conditions. She can't embrace anyone or really be part of the daylight world. But of course, being human, she fails to adhere to these conditions and tragedy ensues." 



(The Water Goblin/Zdeněk Fibich/Česká filharmonie/Karel Šejna, conductor/Václav Voska, narrator)

For more information on Zdeněk Fibich, please visit: baerenreiter.com.

Zdeněk Fibich
The Water Goblin (1883)
for narrator and orchestra 
17'

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