Organization

Conductor

Vojtěch Spurný

Josef Štefan

Stage director

Lubor Cukr

Set designer

Ondřej Bartoš

Costume designer

Josef Jelínek

Dramaturge

Jana Andělová Pletichová

Chorus master

Kremena Pešakova

Choreographer

Martin Tomsa

Music production

Music preparation manager

Libuse Vondrackova

Musical Preparation

Assistant Director

Marta Vaňkátová

Singer

Soprano

Jana Sibera

Marenka

Barbora Řeřichová

Baritone

Zdenek Kapl

Krusina

Alexander Vovk

Katarína Jorda-Kramolišová

Ludmila

Magda Málková

Bass

Martin Gurbaľ

Micha

Dalibor Hrda

Mezzo-soprano

Lucie Hilscherová

Hata

Monika Jägerová

Tenor

Rudolf Medňanský

Vasek

Vít Šantora

Juraj Nociar

Jenik

Jan Ondráček

Michael Kubečka

Kecal

Jiří Přibyl

Václav Morys

Principal of comedians

Milan Vlček

Tereza Kavecká

Esmeralda

Anna Začalová

Evžen Trupar

Indian

Roman Cimbál

Šárka Maršálová

Kecala's wife

Ivana Lebedová

other characters

Kamila Srubková

Jakub Stránský

Martin Táborský

Martin Valouch

Petra Španělová

Slezské divadlo

Others

Choir of the Silesian Theater in Opava

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Silesian Theater in Opava

Ballet

Ballet of the Silesian Theater in Opava

children from the Opera Studio

Prodaná nevěsta -  (The Bartered Bride)

Opava

Czech Republic

Prodaná nevěsta Smetana

Public

The Bartered Bride

Approved

Prodaná nevěsta - Bedřich Smetana, opera, Slezské divadlo Opava

The first premiere of the opera ensemble in the new theater season, which we dedicate to the celebrations of the anniversary of the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic, will take place on Sunday 21 October from 7 pm . It is the opera The Bartered Bride by Bedřich Smetana.

We present this comic opera written on the libretto by Karel Sabina in the original version, which premiered on October 30, 1866 and was written more as a singspiel. After being accused of Wagnerianism in Brandenburg in Bohemia , Smetana decided to write a "light opera" and reworked his work several times.

The last adaptation of  The Bartered Bride was introduced on September 25, 1870. A fundamental change was the replacement of spoken prose with sung recitatives, and the couplet of the Principal and Esmeralda , who builds with a saint , was removed . This latest version has been played for almost 150 years and has become a national opera, which is often performed in connection with the celebrations of our nation. Criticism was varied for the premiere and the adjustments. Pivoda accused Smetana of including the ballet and soprano aria for the adaptation of the opera - The Bartered Bride is now sighing around Paris and the assigned aria across the German sky…. The music papers stated that the included recitatives were tasteless and E. Krásnohorská pointed out a false reclamation. But even these allegations did not prevent the success of the Bartered Bride. The way to the world opera stage was opened to our national opera by the hospital performance of the National Theater in Vienna in 1892.

The most important works of B. Smetana (March 2, 1824 Litomyšl - May 12, 1884 Prague) mainly represent opera and symphonic compositions, as well as piano works. Smetana created operas from historical ones - Brandenburg in Bohemia , Dalibor , Libuše to comic - The Bartered Bride , Two Widows and the romantic operas Hubička , Tajemství , Čertova stěna , which put various topics side by side with a serious and slightly comical atmosphere. Smetana is traditionally called the founder of Czech national music. The Bartered Bride was the most played Czech opera abroad for a very long time, but in the last twenty years of the 20th century it came to the forefront of the opera Rusalka by A. Dvořák and Her Godmother by L. Janáček. From the symphonic works, the cycle  My Homeland , and especially the  Vltava , penetrated into the world's concert halls .

The plot of the charming comic opera The Bartered Bride perhaps needs no mention. We all know the village matchmaker Kecal, the stuttering and immature Vašek, the emotional and energetic Mařenka and the clever Jeník. The opera from a real village environment with rich melody and instrumentation surpassed Italian buffs and German comic operas. Smetana endowed him with a brilliant melody of the individual character and situation. Why wouldn't we be happy when Jeník sold Mařenka to himself, Mařenka tells about Vašek that she is a murderess and Vašek stutters and disguises himself as a bear?

English

Forestillingkreditter (Ensemble & produksjonsteam )

Cast

Mannskap

Ensemble