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    The Bartered Bride is a comic opera in three acts composed by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana between 1866-1868. It tells the story of how true love prevails over meddling parents and a marriage broker in a Bohemian village setting. While not immediately successful, the opera gained popularity after revisions and was performed internationally, helping establish Czech national opera. The opera makes use of traditional Czech dances and folk-inspired music to create a uniquely Czech sound and spirit.

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    The Bartered Bride is a comic opera in three acts composed by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana between 1866-1868. It tells the story of how true love prevails over meddling parents and a marriage broker in a Bohemian village setting. While not immediately successful, the opera gained popularity after revisions and was performed internationally, helping establish Czech national opera. The opera makes use of traditional Czech dances and folk-inspired music to create a uniquely Czech sound and spirit.

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    The Bartered Bride is a comic opera in three acts composed by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana between 1866-1868. It tells the story of how true love prevails over meddling parents and a marriage broker in a Bohemian village setting. While not immediately successful, the opera gained popularity after revisions and was performed internationally, helping establish Czech national opera. The opera makes use of traditional Czech dances and folk-inspired music to create a uniquely Czech sound and spirit.

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    The Bartered Bride

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bedich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Czech: Prodan nevsta, The Sold Fiance) is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina !he opera is considered to ha"e made a ma#or contrib$tion to%ards the de"elopment of Czech m$sic &t %as composed d$rin' the period ()*+,**, and first performed at the -ro"isional !heatre, -ra'$e, on +. /ay ()** in a t%o0act format %ith spoken dialo'$e Set in a co$ntry "illa'e and %ith realistic characters, it tells the story of ho%, after a late s$rprise re"elation, tr$e lo"e pre"ails o"er the combined efforts of ambitio$s parents and a schemin' marria'e broker !he opera %as not immediately s$ccessf$l, and %as re"ised and e1tended in the follo%in' fo$r years &n its final "ersion, premiered in ()2., it 'ained rapid pop$larity and e"ent$ally became a %orld%ide s$ccess Czech national opera $ntil this time had been represented only by a n$mber of minor, rarely performed %orks !his opera, Smetana3s second, %as part of his 4$est to create a tr$ly Czech operatic 'enre Smetana3s m$sical treatment makes considerable $se of traditional Bohemian dance forms s$ch as the polka and f$riant, altho$'h he lar'ely a"oids the direct 4$otation of folkson' 5e ne"ertheless created m$sic %hich %as acc$rately folk0like, and is considered by Czechs to be 4$intessentially Czech in spirit !he o"ert$re, often played as a concert piece independently from the opera, %as, $n$s$ally, composed before almost any of the other m$sic had been %ritten 6fter a performance at the 7ienna /$sic and !heatre 81hibition of ()9:, the opera achie"ed international reco'nition &t %as performed in Chica'o in ()9+, ;ondon in ()9< and reached =e% >ork in (9.9, s$bse4$ently becomin' the first, and for many years the only, Czech opera in the 'eneral repertory /any of these early international performances %ere in ?erman, $nder the title Die verkaufte Braut, and the ?erman0lan'$a'e "ersion contin$es to be played and recorded 6 ?erman film of the opera %as made in (9+: by /a1 @phAls B(C

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