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Only two of Janáček’s operas were published in full score during his lifetime: Její pastorkyňa ( Jenůfa) and Kát’a Kabanová. Z mrtvého domu (From the House of the Dead) came out two years after his death and, like Jenůfa, in an edition reorchestrated and revised by others. One of the striking achievements in recent years of Janáček’s publisher, Universal Edition, has been the systematic preparation of new, scholarly editions of their Janáček stock in full score and study score, together with revised piano-vocal scores and newlyprepared orchestral parts. The “Brno version (1908)” of Jenůfa, stripping the score of Karel Kovařovic’s revisions and reorchestration, appeared in 1996, and was followed by critical editions of Janáček’s first opera Šárka (piano-vocal score only, 2002) and Příhody lišky Bystrou šky (The Cunning Little Vixen, 2010), both edited by Jiří Zahrádka, curator of the Janáček Archive in the Mora vian Museum Brno. Zahrádka’s considerable editorial experience (he is also the editor of Glagolská mše (The Glagolitic Mass) and Osud (Fate) for Bären reiter, and most of Janáček’s chamber and solo piano music (for JANÁČEK’S THE MAKROPULOS AFFAIR