The National Theatre

The Bartered Bride

For over 150 years, The Bartered Bride has occupied the top position among Czech operas. Said to be now part of the Czech DNA, its popularity even eclipses that of Bedřich Smetana, its creator. Yet at the time when it came into being, in the 1870s, The Bartered Bride was a rather audacious experiment.

opera
nationaltheatre
bedrichsmetana
humour
traditional
kateřinakněžíková
praguetheatre
operetta
divadlobraní

Start the new season of the National Theater 2024/2025 with a 25% discount on selected performances until the end of September! The discount can be applied when buying tickets from 19 August to 15 September 2024, as follows: when buying online - choose the "Divadlobraní" discount and enter the code "divadelniuroda24".

All dates

Tuesday

9/10/2024


7:30 PM


Národní divadlo

Praha


250 - 1390 CZK

Friday

9/20/2024


7:00 PM


Národní divadlo

Praha


250 - 1390 CZK

Saturday

9/28/2024


6:00 PM


Národní divadlo

Praha


250 - 1390 CZK

Wednesday

10/16/2024


7:00 PM


Národní divadlo

Praha


250 - 1390 CZK

Wednesday

12/11/2024


7:00 PM


Národní divadlo

Praha


250 - 1390 CZK

Show more dates

Description

ABOUT PERFORMANCE

Smetana and the librettist Karel Sabina masterfully mocked all those who expected the “national opera” to be an idyllic picture of the Czech countryside, with its inhabitants being virtuous and governed by high morals. The Bartered Bride is thus far more humorous than “national”. Nonetheless, its humour is precisely of the type Czechs so love, and hence Smetana’s opera, abounding in irony, scathing, occasionally even cynical, wit, as well as tenderness and simple joie de vivre, has ultimately become “national” in the best sense of the word ...

To date, the National Theatre in Prague has made 20 productions of The Bartered Bride. The 21st was entrusted to the film and stage director Alice Nellis. What will prevail now? Sentimental foregrounding of the life in a picturesque Czech village, or jest and the self-irony with which Smetana and Sabina imbued their opera? Don’t guess. Come and check out for yourself!

CAST

Conductor Jaroslav Kyzlink, David Švec
Mařenka Alžběta Poláčková, Jana Sibera, Kateřina Kněžíková
Mařenka 2 Markéta Klaudová, Doubravka Součková
Jeník Peter Berger, Richard Samek
Kecal Jiří Sulženko, Zdeněk Plech

and more.

National Theatre Chorus
National Theatre Orchestra

National Theatre Opera Ballet 

Show more
Length 180 minutes

Performance teaser

Our tips

Beetlejuice

Music theatre Karlín

Sladké neřesti

Divadlo Lucie Bílé

Me, Art Nouveau

Hybernia theatre

Les Misérables - Bídníci

GOJA Music Hall

Sladké plody reality

Strašnické divadlo v Praze - ADVERTE - divadlo francouzské komedie

Svátky hudby v Praze - Grand Opening in the Rudolfinum

Svátky hudby v Praze, Václav Hudeček a jeho hosté - 2024/2025

Doktor Faust - muzikál s živým orchestrem

Manina Theatre

The Secret

The National Theatre

PROČ BYCHOM SE NETĚŠILI - PFS slaví s českými sbory

Prague Philharmonic Choir

Coppélia

The National Theatre

Abramo ed Isacco

Collegium 1704

Tarzan

Hybernia theatre

Swan Lake

Agency Artistic International

Three Wishes for Cinderella

CNSO - Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Concert in the Rudolfinum - MOZART, VIVALDI, SMETANA

Parnas Ensemble

Kabát - po čertech velký turné 2024

Pink Panther Agency, s.r.o.

Hračička

Divadlo Radka Brzobohatého

The Sinatra Experience: Celebrating a Musical Legend

Reduta Jazz Club

Symphony of a Thousand in the Municipal house

Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK

Nabucco

The National Theatre

Dracula 30 let

Kultura pod hvězdami

Sluha dvou pánů

National Theatre Brno

Oliver!

The National Moravian - Silesian theatre

CLASSIC SPECTACULAR in the Tyn Church - Mozart, Bach, Schubert

Classics international

Poe

The National Theatre

The Bodyguard

Music theatre Karlín

Old town hall (Staroměstská radnice) - SKIP THE LINE

Prague City Tourism, a. s.

Čarodějův učeň - screening accompanied by a live orchestra

Colosseum Ticket - Perfect System, s.r.o.

Forget about Shakespeare!

Hybernia theatre

Srdeční záležitost

Divadlo Lucie Bílé

Třináct u stolu

Divadlo Lucie Bílé

Recitál Lucie Bílé - koncert v Praze

Divadlo Lucie Bílé

Chicago

The National Moravian - Silesian theatre

KLEMENTINUM 2024 - Baroque Library and Astronomical Tower

Prague City Tourism, a. s.

Swan Lake

The National Theatre

The Nutcracker - A Christmas Carol

The National Theatre

The Nutcracker

National Theatre Brno

Saturnin

National Theatre Brno

Other's search
The most popular
musicalsprague
praguetheatre
classicalmusic
summerstage
strašnicetheater
filmmusic
rudolfinum
thestateopera
musical
nationaltheatre