The Secret Czech Tajemstvi is a comic opera in three acts by Bedrich Smetana. The libretto was written by Eliska Krasnohorska. The premiere took place September 18 1878 at the Nove Ceske Divadlo New Czech Theatre in Prague.

Role
Blazenka Malina`s daughter - soprano
Bonifac veteran soldier - bass
Vit a huntsman Kalina`s son - - tenor
Kalina a councillor - baritone
Panna Roza Malina`s sister - contralto
Malina a councillor - bass
Skrivanek a singer - tenor
Jirka a bell-ringer - tenor
The Ghost of Barnabas - bass
An entrepreneur - baritone
The innkeeper - soprano
Chorus Councillors neighbours boys and girls threshers bricklayers
shadows and apparitions bagpipers.

Synopsis
Twenty years before Councillor Kalina had asked for the hand of Roza Malinova who turned him down because of his lack of wealth. Kalina then married a woman of similar status. Roza never married and regrets having rejected Kalina.
Kalina has had a house built for himself across the town square from the Malinas. He is now widowed but puts on a show of wealth. He is unaware that his son Vitek has fallen in love with the daughter of his rival councillor the brother of Roza. Kalina discovers by chance an ancient document and map which contain directions from an old friar Barnabas how he might find treasure hidden under Mount Bezdez. As he is in debt Kalina determines to take the prompts of the friar. However the tunnel he digs leads him to underneath a room in the Malinas house where his son has been making his farewells to his forbidden love Blazenka.
It becomes clear that the aim of the old Barnabas was to make Kalina discover his treasure his old love Roza. The opera ends happily with a double wedding.

The opera was not as successful as Smetana had hoped; after its opening run it was seen only a dozen more times during his lifetime and was unperformed for twenty years after that. In 1922 it came back into the repertory of the Prague National Theatre.

Opera `The Secret` (1877-1878), JB 1:110 (Smetana)
Malina - Karel Kalas, Kalina - Premysl Koci, Rose - Stepanka Stepanova, Blazenka - Stefa Petrova, Vit - Ivo Zidek, Bonifac - Vladimir Jedenactik, Skrivanek - Oldrich Kovar, A Builder - Josef Krikava, The Innkeeper - Milada Cadikovicova, Jirka - Rudolf Vonasek, The Ghost of Friar Barnabas - Josef Rozanek. Chorus and Orchestra - Prague National Theatre. Conductor Jaroslav Krombholc. 1953
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Opera `The Secret` (1877-1878), JB 1:110 (Smetana)
Prague 1945 Malina, konšel (Jaroslav Veverka), Kalina, konšel (Zdeněk Otava), Panna Róza, sestra Malinova (Marta Krásová), Blaženka, sestra Malinova (Marie Budíková), Vít, syn Kalinův, myslivec (Beno Blachut), Bonifác, vysloužilec, Kalinův výměnkář (Vladimír Jedenáctík), Skřivánek, zpěvák (Karel Hruška), Mistr zednický (Karel Kalaš), Hospodská (Miloslav
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