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The Bartered Bride, an evergreen of Czech theatre and one of the icons of Czech culture in general, has been staged at the National Theatre virtually continuously from the very beginning up to the present day. In recent years it has already become a tradition that each new artistic management of the opera has created their own production of The Bartered Bride in which they have embodied their own dramatic visions and ideas. Sometimes, we have highlighted in Smetana’s and Sabina’s eternal story from Czech village life replete with humorous as well as moving human types and situations its poetic qualities, at others its realistic harshness, while its grotesqueness and playfulness have also been accentuated. This time the National Theatre Opera invited for staging of The Bartered Bride the young director Magdaléna Švecová whose intelligent, femininely tender and thoughtful sensitivity and original dramatic vision serve to uncover covert or overlooked values in classical repertoire works. In the history of the National Theatre, she is the first woman to direct The Bartered Bride.
The opera is staged in the Czech original version and English and German surtitles are used in the performance.Du­ration of the performance:3 hours, 2 intermissions

The Bartered Bride – Bedřich Smetana
The National Theatre
Premiere: 20 June 2008 were part of the festival Smetana's Litomyšl
Musical preparation: Ondrej LenárdConductor: Ondrej Lenárd / David ŠvecDirector: Magdalena ŠvecováStage design: Petr MatásekCostumes: Zuzana PřidalováChorus master: Pavel VaněkChoreography: Ladislava KošíkováDramaturgy: Ondřej Hučín
Mařenka: Dana Burešová / Alžběta Poláčková / Pavla Vykopalová
Jeník: Aleš Briscein / Jaroslav Březina / Tomáš Černý
Koal: Zdeněk Plech / Luděk Vele
Vašek: Jaroslav Březina / Václav Lemberk / Aleš Voráček
Krušina: Roman Janál / Ivan Kusnjer
Ludmila: Stanislava Jirků / Yvona Škvárová
Mícha: Aleš Hendrych / Miloslav Podskalský
Háta: Sylva Čmugrová / Lenka Šmídová
Principal: Vladimír Doležal / Jan Ježek / Jan Markvart
Esmeralda: Hana Jonášová / Lucie Silkenová
Indian: Pavel Novák / František ZahradníčekOr­chestra and choir of the National Theatre Opera, Continuo Theatre members under the leading of the Artistic Director Pavel Štourač, dancers, members of the Kühn's Children Cho­ir

© Národní divadlo, Hana Smejkalová

© Národní divadlo, Hana Smejkalová

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