The Bartered Bride - Schedule, Program & Tickets

COMIC OPERA in three acts

Text by Karel Sabina

New German text by Susanne Felicitas Wolf in collaboration with Sergio Morabito, based on the stage version by Carl Riha and Winfried Höntsch, using passages from the translations by Kurt Honolka and Paul Esterhazy

Cast:

Krušina
Franz Xaver Schlecht

Ludmila
Margaret Plummer

Mařenka
Slávka Zámečníková

Mícha
Ivo Stanchev

Háta
Monika Bohinec

Jeník
Pavol Breslik

Vašek
Michael Laurenz

Kecal
Peter Kellner

Director of the Comedians
Matthäus Schmidlechner

Esmeralda
Ilia Staple

Comedian
Alex Ilvakhin

Musical Direction
Tomáš Hanus

Direction
Dirk Schmeding

Stage Design
Robert Schweer

Costumes
Alfred Mayerhofer

Choreography
Annika Dickel

Light Design
Tim van t'Hof

Video
Johannes Kulz

Synopsis:

Smetana's The Bartered Bride depicts the state of emergency that an entire Czech village falls into during the church fair and the seemingly hopeless struggle of a young woman for her seemingly betrayed and sold love. The utopian counterworld of a traveling circus holds a mirror to the villagers' out-of-control desires, their dependencies, fears, and hopes.

Acts 1 & 2 approx. 90 minutes
Interval approx. 30 minutes
Act 3 approx. 60 minutes

Subject to change.