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The 2023 La Scala production of an opera from this country set its first and third acts in a submerged gothic cathedral and introduces its title character in a wheelchair (-5[1])wearing a pink tentacled dress. A composer from this country used his technique of “speech-melodies” to evoke natural vocal patterns in a character’s plea for forgiveness after drowning her stepdaughter’s baby in an icy stream. In one opera from this country, ascending harp chords in 3/8 open the aria “Song to the Moon.” (-5[1])In that opera from this country, a prince dies after kissing the title water nymph. Folk dances like the (-5[1])furiant and polka feature in an opera from this (-5[1])country, whose other operas include Rusalka and Jenůfa (“yeh-NOO-fah”). For 10 points, name this country home to operas by composers (0[1])Leoš Janáček (-5[1])(“YA-na-check”) and (10[1])Antonín Dvořák ■END■ (10[6])

ANSWER: Czechia [or Czech Republic; accept Czechoslovakia]
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