1 SINATRA THE MUSICAL Will Open in London's West End This Summer 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 ...
The Czechiest features of The Bartered Bride – cornerstone of Czech opera and the first to go international after premiering in 1866 – are in the music rather than the story or setting. No accident: ...
To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Smetana’s comic opera “The Bartered Bride” made a ...
“My music is rhythmic because I am Czech… the natural music of the Czechs is rhythm – strong and agile rhythm.” (Martinů). How well the conductor Jac van Steen and the director Paul Curran understood ...