Musically, Bedřich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride is marvellous, vivid, dance-infused work. In the second performance of the run, conductor Jac van Steen and the Philharmonia Orchestra were achieving ...

And it has an anti-hero in the person of a youth with a stammer, who gets laughed at and ends up as a circus bear. The fact that the proposed sale is a trick to enable a genuine love match is the sort ...

One bride, two suitors and a bear. Will true love win the day? All is revealed in Smetana's delightful comic opera, a tangled tale of love and mistaken identity, wrapped up in an enchanting blend of ...

Bedrich Smetana deals with love In his earthy opera "The Bartered Bride." It may not be politically correct — the bride is bought, after all — but everything turns out happily in the end. Here's an ...

There is nothing highbrow about Smetana's opera "The Bartered Bride," a story of down-to-earth life and peasant high jinks, all of it sunny-side up. In concert format and with panache, the Auburn ...

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