Bohuslav Martinu composed his last stage work of the pre-war period, "Alexandre bis", in 1937 for the World Exhibition in Paris of the same year. The libretto for this chamber opera buffa for five people was written by the French writer and journalist André Wurmser. It is a light-hearted parody text full of puns and exaggerations. The plot is set around 1900. Martinu was presumably unable to complete the work in time; in any case, the opera was not premiered until several years after the compose...