The Bartered Bride - Schedule, Program & Tickets
The Bartered Bride
Approximate duration: 3 hours, 2 breaks of 20 minutes
In Czech, subtitles in Czech, English
National Theater Choir
National Theater Orchestra
National Theater Opera Ballet
Smetana and the librettist Karel Sabina masterfully poked fun at everyone who expected the “National Opera” to be an idyllic picture of the Czech countryside with its virtuous and high-moral residents. So The Bartered Bride is far more humorous than “national”. Nevertheless, her humor is exactly the kind that the Czechs love, and so Smetana's opera is full of irony, biting, occasionally even cynical wit, but also tenderness and simple joie de vivre in a world that has ultimately become "national" in the best sense of the word...
The National Theater has presented many adaptations of The Bartered Bride, which has always been an integral part of its repertoire. The 21st production of The Bartered Bride was entrusted to film and stage director Alice Nellis. What will prevail this time? Sentimental mise-en-scène of life in a picturesque Czech village, or the joke and self-mockery that Smetana and Sabina imbued their opera with? This time, in Alice Nellis' interpretation, The Bartered Bride mocks not only the villagers of bygone times, but also those who have been searching for the formula for the new production of the Czech “opera of operas” for generations. The Bartered Bride not only tells the story of Mařenka, Jeník, Vašek and Kecal, it is also about “how opera is made” – how the rehearsals proceed, how it gradually takes on a theatrical shape, how the director tries to make the opera “modern ' to make the others frown at his efforts, what can happen during rehearsals and how the piece finally finds the right form - really happy, moving and visually beautiful!
Subject to change.
In Czech, subtitles in Czech, English
National Theater Choir
National Theater Orchestra
National Theater Opera Ballet
Smetana and the librettist Karel Sabina masterfully poked fun at everyone who expected the “National Opera” to be an idyllic picture of the Czech countryside with its virtuous and high-moral residents. So The Bartered Bride is far more humorous than “national”. Nevertheless, her humor is exactly the kind that the Czechs love, and so Smetana's opera is full of irony, biting, occasionally even cynical wit, but also tenderness and simple joie de vivre in a world that has ultimately become "national" in the best sense of the word...
The National Theater has presented many adaptations of The Bartered Bride, which has always been an integral part of its repertoire. The 21st production of The Bartered Bride was entrusted to film and stage director Alice Nellis. What will prevail this time? Sentimental mise-en-scène of life in a picturesque Czech village, or the joke and self-mockery that Smetana and Sabina imbued their opera with? This time, in Alice Nellis' interpretation, The Bartered Bride mocks not only the villagers of bygone times, but also those who have been searching for the formula for the new production of the Czech “opera of operas” for generations. The Bartered Bride not only tells the story of Mařenka, Jeník, Vašek and Kecal, it is also about “how opera is made” – how the rehearsals proceed, how it gradually takes on a theatrical shape, how the director tries to make the opera “modern ' to make the others frown at his efforts, what can happen during rehearsals and how the piece finally finds the right form - really happy, moving and visually beautiful!
Subject to change.
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The Bartered Bride
Bedřich Smetana
Bedřich Smetana
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