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 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.” In that opera from this country, a prince dies after kissing the title water nymph. Folk dances like the furiant and polka feature in an opera from this country, whose other operas include Rusalka (10[1])and Jenůfa (10[1])(“yeh-NOO-fah”). For 10 points, name this country home to operas by composers Leoš Janáček (“YA-na-check”) and Antonín Dvořák ■END■