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The Cunning Peasant (Šelma sedlák in Czech) is an opera by Antonín Dvořák. The Czech-language libretto is by Josef Otakar Veselý.
The Cunning Peasant was written at a time when there was a lack of high-quality Czech dramatic writers. In his 1995 notes to the Supraphon recording, Milan Pospíšil indicates that Veselý did not solve that problem. His libretto demonstrates talent but also uncritical self-confidence and recycles traditional plot elements and even the names of characters. Both Jeník...
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