BOSTON — As I listen to the overture of Bedřich Smetana’s "The Bartered Bride" in preparation for my call with Boston Midsummer Opera music director and conductor Susan Davenny Wyner, I sense ...

We'll stick with Smetana and head to a concert in Geneva, Switzerland to hear the Orchestra of the Swiss Romande and conductor Pinchas Steinberg with the "Polka" from Smetana's "The Bartered Bride." ...

These days, more performances of music from Bedrich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride come from the concert stage than from the opera pit. The opera is nearly defunct, but these dances have survived.

Last year, Boston Midsummer Opera presented Otto Nicolai’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” which is based on the Shakespeare play. This year, the company’s ninth season, we’re getting another ...

Bedrich Smetana wrote music so clearly rooted in his Czech homeland that it would be easy to define him -- narrowly -- as a musical nationalist. But in fact, his achievement goes far deeper than that.

2 Video: RIDE THE CYCLONE at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant We haven't seen a lot of Smetana's The Bartered Bride in the UK recently. Bohemia's best-loved opera is rapidly becoming one of the ...

The Bartered Bride was Smetana's second opera. His first, a drama called The Brandenburgers in Bohemia, was an early success in Prague — but quickly disappeared. With The Bartered Bride, it was ...

Director Paul Curran transfers Smetana’s comic masterpiece to 1950s England to create an irresistibly energetic production A generation ago, Smetana’s comic masterpiece could still be billed as the ...

When it comes to comic opera, you can’t go wrong with a story about rustic life, as even Lucy Ricardo proved in an I Love Lucy episode with her immortal, if rudely shortened, creation The Pleasant ...

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BOSTON — As I listen to the overture of Bedřich Smetana’s "The Bartered Bride" in preparation for my call with Boston Midsummer Opera music director and conductor Susan Davenny Wyner, I sense ...