BOSTON — As I listen to the overture of Bedřich Smetana’s "The Bartered Bride" in preparation for my call with Boston Midsummer Opera music director and conductor Susan Davenny Wyner, I sense ...
This company’s chorus is one of its greatest assets, and every syllable tells. First staged in 1998, Daniel Slater’s production of Smetana’s Czech nationalist classic sets the action in the early ...
Opera holds a central place in Bedrich Smetana's oeuvre, but today the Czech composer's works for the stage have been all but forgotten. Even "The Bartered Bride," the most popular and arguably the ...
The School of Music's Lyric Opera Theatre is putting on a production of Bedřich Smetana’s "The Bartered Bride" on Sept. 27, 28, 30 and on Oct. 1. Dale Dreyfoos, professor of opera and music theater ...
There’s no shortage of movie musicals based on popular plays. Far fewer are based on operas. Max Ophüls’s rarely seen 1932 film “The Bartered Bride,” a seventy-six-minute, giddily inventive adaptation ...
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In 1940, the newly formed Canton Civic Opera presented its first production, the comic opera, “The Bartered Bride,” in the brand-new Timken High School auditorium. The production was directed by a ...
3 Video: Michael Greif Picks the Shows That Shaped Him We haven't seen a lot of Smetana's The Bartered Bride in the UK recently. Bohemia's best-loved opera is rapidly becoming one of the repertoire's ...
So do we exchange jolly peasants for glowering apparatchiks? Hardly – this is as entertaining a version of Smetana’s opera as you could wish, but the celebration of Czech nationalism has extra edge ...