What is "svatopluk"

Svatopluk (in modern Czech) or Svätopluk (in modern Slovak) is a Slavic given name. It may refer to:

• Svatopluk I of Moravia (c. 840-894), prince of Great Moravia from 870/871 to 894
• Svätopluk II (died c. 906), a son of Svatopluk I, prince of the Nitrian principality from 894 to c. 906
• Svatopluk of Bohemia (died 1109), ruler of Bohemia from 1107 to 1109
• Svatopluk Čech (1846–1908), Czech writer, journalist and poet
• Svatopluk Havelka (1925–2009), Czech composer
• Svatopluk Innemann (1896–1945), Czech film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, film editor and actor
• Svatopluk Pluskal (1930-2005), Czech footballer
• Svatopluk Svoboda (1886-1971), Czechoslovakian Olympic gymnast
• Svatopluk Turek (1900-1972), Czech writer using the pen name T. Svatopluk
• Svätopluk (opera), a Slovak opera by Eugen Suchoň

Svätopluk is a Slovak opera by Eugen Suchoň with the subtitle Musical drama in three acts. The libretto is by Eugen Suchoň, Ivan Stodola and Jela Krčméry-Vrteľová and is loosely based on Stodola's play Kráľ Svätopluk, which was in turn based on events in the life of King Svatopluk I. Suchoň composed Svätopluk between 1952 and 1959. It was premiered on 10 March 1960 in the Slovak National Theatre, directed by Miloš Wasserbauer and conducted by Tibor Frešo.