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Die verkaufte Braut
Comic opera in three acts
Text by Karel Sabina, German version by Kurt Honolka
In German with German and English surtitles
Marie loves Hans – Hans loves Marie. Hans is a stranger in town, but he has taken Marie's heart by storm. There is only one problem: Marie is to marry Wenzel, the son of the landowner Micha, and thus pay off an old debt. The matchmaker Kezal even offers Hans money if he renounces Marie – which Hans surprisingly accepts. He has Kezal confirm in writing that only Micha's son is allowed to marry Marie. What nobody knows: apart from Wenzel, old Micha also has a second son: Hans.
Bedřich Smetana wanted to present his compatriots with a Czech national opera in the form of the popular light opera in a light conversational tone with lots of folksy humor, memorable characters, colorful choral singing and fast-paced folk dances, and at the same time silence his critics, who accused him of a lack of originality and Wagnerianism. In the second version from 1870, the "bride" then also began to triumph throughout Europe. In her first work at the Semperoper, the internationally successful French director Mariame Clément, with a keen sense of the unpredictability of human actions, the poetry of the love story and a sharp scalpel, gradually uncovers the layers of this seemingly cheerful folk play with bitterly evil content. The Slovak tenor Pavol Breslik can be seen as Hans in his first new production at the Semperoper, and the Czech conductor Tomáš Netopil, who conducted the new production »Doktor Faust« in Dresden in 2017, will conduct the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
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Text by Karel Sabina, German version by Kurt Honolka
In German with German and English surtitles
Marie loves Hans – Hans loves Marie. Hans is a stranger in town, but he has taken Marie's heart by storm. There is only one problem: Marie is to marry Wenzel, the son of the landowner Micha, and thus pay off an old debt. The matchmaker Kezal even offers Hans money if he renounces Marie – which Hans surprisingly accepts. He has Kezal confirm in writing that only Micha's son is allowed to marry Marie. What nobody knows: apart from Wenzel, old Micha also has a second son: Hans.
Bedřich Smetana wanted to present his compatriots with a Czech national opera in the form of the popular light opera in a light conversational tone with lots of folksy humor, memorable characters, colorful choral singing and fast-paced folk dances, and at the same time silence his critics, who accused him of a lack of originality and Wagnerianism. In the second version from 1870, the "bride" then also began to triumph throughout Europe. In her first work at the Semperoper, the internationally successful French director Mariame Clément, with a keen sense of the unpredictability of human actions, the poetry of the love story and a sharp scalpel, gradually uncovers the layers of this seemingly cheerful folk play with bitterly evil content. The Slovak tenor Pavol Breslik can be seen as Hans in his first new production at the Semperoper, and the Czech conductor Tomáš Netopil, who conducted the new production »Doktor Faust« in Dresden in 2017, will conduct the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
Subject to change.
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