Lejla is an 1868 Czech-language opera by Karel Bendl.[1]
"Ó ještě čekat...V líbezném klínu" (from Lejla) Ivan Kusnjer (baritone)
References
↑ David Charlton, Jonathan Cross, The Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera, 2003 p. 376: "The first whole-hearted Czech grand opera, however, was by Šebor's senior of five years, Karel Bendl. Lejla, premièred in four acts but later revised and published in five, was given for the first time in the Provisional Theatre on 4 January 1868."
