The most popular Czech comic opera, with a libretto by Karel Sabina, marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Bedřich Smetana, in the current production of the National Theater in Prague. For more than 150 years, The Bartered Bride has dominated Czech opera. No one else, not even Smetana himself, has managed to surpass its popularity, which over the years has become part of our national DNA, so to speak. At the time of its creation in the 1860s, however, The Bartered Bride was actually quite a bold experiment – Bedřich Smetana and librettist Karel Sabina masterfully mocked all those who imagined "national opera" as an idyllic picture of the Czech countryside, where national virtues reign supreme.
Directed byAlice Nellis
ARTE GEIEFeaturing

Kateřina Kněžíková
Mařenka
Doubravka Součková
Mařenka 2
Richard Samek
Jeník
Jiří Sulženko
Kecal
Josef Moravec
Vašek

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Krušina
Lucie Hájková
Ludmila / Esmeralda
Roman Vocel
Mícha
Yvona Škvárová
Háta
Jaroslav Březina
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