The Bartered Bride
The most popular Czech national opera and one of the best comic operas in the world repertoire returns to our stage after three years. It was for the second time Bedřich Smetana and Karel Sabina created together, and they decided to work on a theme that proceeds from a village setting. Though the creative process culminating in opera was not easy, the joint work resulted in a piece abound in brilliant music, characterisation, and last but not least dazzling comedy.
Description
ABOUT
The most popular Czech national opera and one of the best comic operas in the world repertoire returns to our stage after three years.
It was for the second time Bedřich Smetana and Karel Sabina created together, and they decided to work on a theme that proceeds from a village setting. Though the creative process culminating in opera was not easy, the joint work resulted in a piece abound in brilliant music, characterisation, and last but not least dazzling comedy.
Moreover, the opera, of course, is also fundamental as far as the history of our theatre is concerned—on 12 August 1919, the opera that was musically prepared by Emanuel Bastl and directed by Karel Kügler premiered on the stage of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre, by which the theatre operation was launched. Since then, the opera has been staged on our stage in thirteen more productions.
Cast and creatives
Musical preparation: Marek Šedivý
Conductor: Jiří Habart, Marek Šedivý
Stage director: Jiří Nekvasil
Set designer: Daniel Dvořák
Costume designer: Sylva Zimula Hanáková
Choreography: Lukas Zuschlag
Motion cooperation, Gagman: Števo Capko
Motion cooperation: Jana Tomsová
Chorus master: Jurij Galatenko
Dramaturg: Juraj Bajús
Krušina, sedlák: Roman Vlkovič
Ludmila, jeho žena: Eva Dřízgová-Jirušová
Mařenka, jejich dcera: Veronika Rovná
Mícha, gruntovník: Josef Škarka
Háta, jeho žena: Jana Hrochová
Vašek, jejich syn: Ondřej Koplík
Jeník, Míchův syn z prvního manželství: Martin Šrejma
and others
