One opera by this composer features the title character and Laca left to earn their own living; that work is Jenufa and is known as "the Moravian national opera".
This composer's first significant acclaim came after another composer revised his opera based on Gabriela Preissová's Her Stepdaughter. Works by this composer written in his last decade include a string quartet based on a short story by Tolstoy, which itself refers to a piece by Beethoven, as well as an opera based on a newspaper cartoon-strip and a Mass written in Old Church Slavonic. One opera by this composer features the title character and Laca left to earn their own living; that work is Jenufa and is known as "the Moravian national opera". For 10 points, this is which Czech composer of Taras Bulba, Sinfonietta and The Cunning Little Vixen?
This composer's first significant acclaim came after another composer revised his opera based on Gabriela Preissová's Her Stepdaughter.
Leoš {Janáček}