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.

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." ...

You probably haven’t seen The Bartered Bride before, and you probably shouldn’t let this opportunity slip by. Bedrich Smetana is an overlooked but wonderful composer whose music swoops and soars like ...

The Czech Ballet Symphony II (9/30-6/20) Video: The Company of SPAMALOT Gets Ready for the Kennedy Center ...

Eric Crozier Joan Cross Bed?ich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, the founding work of modern Czech opera, soon exceeded the domestic framework and became a permanent part of the world’s operatic ...

So do we exchange jolly peasants for glowering apparatchiks? Hardly – this is as entertaining a version of Smetana’s opera as you could wish, but the celebration of Czech nationalism has extra edge ...

Musically, Bedřich Smetana’s The Bartered Bride is marvellous, vivid, dance-infused work. In the second performance of the run, conductor Jac van Steen and the Philharmonia Orchestra were achieving ...

The Czech Center Museum of Houston will present Bedrich Smetana’s opera, The Bartered Bride, one of the most influential pieces of Czech musical history. Often defined by its quintessential Czech ...