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From the House of the Dead

From the House of the Dead is an opera in three acts by the Czech composer Leos Janacek (see Janacek, Leos). It uses a libretto (text) in Czech by the composer, based on the 1862 novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky. The opera received its first performance at Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), on April 12, 1930, two years after Janacek's death.

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