The Devil's Wall

The Devil's Wall
Opera by Bedřich Smetana
The composer around 1883
Native title
Čertova stěna
LibrettistEliška Krásnohorská
LanguageCzech
Premiere
29 October 1882 (1882-10-29)
Nové České Divadlo, Prague

The Devil's Wall (Czech: Čertova stěna) is a comic-romantic opera in three acts, with music by Bedřich Smetana and libretto by Eliška Krásnohorská, in their third operatic collaboration. The subtext of the plot is a Czech legend of a sheer rockface that overlooks the Vltava river, near the old monastery of Vyšši Brod, where the Devil was said to have halted the building of the monastery by damming the Vltava, which then rose and flooded the site.

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