Prodaná nevěsta
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.
Cast
Kateřina Kněžíková
as Mařenka
Doubravka Součková
as Mařenka 2
Richard Samek
as Jeník
Jiří Sulženko
as Kecal
Josef Moravec
as Vašek
Jiří Hájek
as Krušina
Lucie Hájková
as Ludmila / Esmeralda
Roman Vocel
as Mícha
Yvona Škvárová
as Háta
Jaroslav Březina
as Principal
