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 ...

This new recording of Smetana's great comedy is arguably the finest achievement to date in Chandos's Opera in English series. Mackerras brings a lifetime's understanding of Czech music to bear on the ...

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There’s no shortage of movie musicals based on popular plays. Far fewer are based on operas. Max Ophüls’s rarely seen 1932 film “The Bartered Bride,” a seventy-six-minute, giddily inventive adaptation ...

Lanchester and District Choral and Operatic Society presents The Bartered Bride at Lanchester Methodist Church on Friday February 28 from 7.15pm. Narrated by story teller Peter Collins, guest soloists ...

From The Lands of The Northern Lights: Owain Arwel Hughes and Halle are joined by pianist Martin Roscoe for Grieg's Piano Concerto, Smetana's Bartered Bride and Sibelius' Symphony No 2, BH, 7.30pm.