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The Bartered BrideKinderveranstaltung

National Theatre (Národní divadlo)Ostrovní 1, Praha 1, Prague, Central Bohemian Region, 11000, Tschechien
Datum/Zeit in Prague Zeitzone
Freitag 05 September 202519:00
Freitag 12 September 202519:00
Sonntag 28 September 202517:00
Sonntag 02 November 202517:00
Dienstag 18 November 202519:00
Samstag 13 Dezember 202518:00
Donnerstag 01 Januar 202617:00
Mittwoch 14 Januar 202619:00
Donnerstag 19 Februar 202619:00
Mittwoch 04 März 202619:00
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Darsteller
Prague National Theatre Opera
Jaroslav KyzlinkMusikalische Leitung
David ŠvecMusikalische Leitung
Alice NellisRegie
Matěj CibulkaBühnenbild, Licht
Kateřina ŠtefkováKostüme
Prague National Theatre Orchestra
Prague National Theatre Chorus
Michal MocňákVideo
Ondřej HučínDramaturgie
Prague National Theatre Opera Ballet
Klára LidováChoreographie
Pavel VaněkChorleitung
Alžběta PoláčkováSopranMařenka
Kateřina KněžíkováSopranMařenka
Jana SiberaSopranMařenka
Barbora PernáSopranMařenka
Markéta KlaudováSopranMařenka
Magdaléna HebousseSopranMařenka
Doubravka NovotnáSopranMařenka
Jiří SulženkoBassKecal
Zdeněk PlechBassKecal
Ondřej KoplíkTenorVašek
Peter RačkoTenorVašek
Josef MoravecTenorVašek
Peter BergerTenorJeník
Richard SamekTenorJeník
Lucie HájkováSopranEsmeralda, Ludmila
Maria KobielskaSopranEsmeralda, Ludmila
Jaroslav BřezinaTenorThe Ringmaster (Principál)
Tomáš KořínekTenorThe Ringmaster (Principál)
Jana SýkorováMezzosopranHáta
Yvona ŠkvárováMezzosopranHáta
Roman VocelBassMicha
František ZahradníčekBassMicha
Jiří HájekBaritonKrušina
Martin BártaBaritonKrušina

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 ...

The National Theatre has presented many adaptations of The Bartered Bride, which has always been a staple of its repertoire. The 21st production of The Bartered Bride was entrusted to the film and stage director Alice Nellis. What prevails this time? Sentimental foregrounding of the life in a picturesque Czech village, or jest and the self-irony with which Smetana and Sabina imbued their opera?

As interpreted by Alice Nellis, The Bartered Bride this time does not only poke fun at villagers of bygone times, but also at those who for generations have striven to find the formula for restaging the Czech "opera of operas“.

Accordingly, the current production of The Bartered Bride does not only retell the story of Mařenka, Jeník, Vašek and Kecal, it is also about “how opera is made“ – how rehearsals proceed, how it gradually assumes a theatrical shape, how the director tries to make the opera “modern”, how the others frown at his endeavours, what can happen at the rehearsals, and how The Bartered Bride finally finds the right form – merry indeed, as well as moving and visually beautiful!

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