Jaroslav Kvapil

Jaroslav Kvapil (25 September 1868 in Chudenice, Kingdom of Bohemia – 10 January 1950 in Prague) was a Czech poet, theatre director, translator, playwright, and librettist.

From 1900 he was a director and Dramaturg at the National Theatre in Prague, where he introduced plays by Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen and Maxim Gorky into the repertory.

He wrote six plays, but is today chiefly remembered as the librettist of Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka.

[3] He was married to actress Hana Kvapilová from 1894 until her death in 1907.

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