
	Where results make sense

Topic: The Bartered Bride

Related Topics

Bedrich Smetana

La Sonnambula

1870 in music

I Puritani

Lucia di Lammermoor

Classical Music

Carmen

Ya Fu

Aida

Il Trovatore

Norma (opera)

La Traviata

Romantic music

List of famous operas

September 20

In the News (Tue 14 Feb 12)

EXECUTIVE POWER

Iran

ANALYSIS

Pakistan

Family compact

	Smetana's The Bartered Bride - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		This media item will not play in the Internet software you are currently using.
		His opera, The Bartered Bride, is a folklike tale of village life.
		"Bartered Bride" by Smetana, from Slavonic Festival (Cat # Naxos 8.550376) (p)1985-1989 HNH International, Ltd. All rights reserved.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461533059_701765971_-1_1/Smetana's_The_Bartered_Bride.html (133 words)

	The Bartered Bride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bartered Bride performed at a landscape theatre in Divoká Šárka, Prague; Ema Destinnová on the right
		The Bartered Bride (in Czech, Prodaná nevěsta) is the second opera of eight by Bedřich Smetana.
		Thanks to efforts of Princess de Metternich, The Bartered Bride was produced in Vienna in 1892, to considerable popular acclaim, and it became the only one of Smetana’s operas to maintain a permanent place in the repertory outside of the Czech homeland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Bartered_Bride (645 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bartered Bride is a brilliant work that could have made Wagner proud to be accused of being Smetanan.
		It is a lively an entertaining musical picture of Bohemian rural life that tells the story of a peasant's daughter who outwits her parents and a marriage broker in order to marry a landowner's son whom she loves, rather than his slow-witted half-brother.
		The rollicking Overture to The Bartered Bride is based on a group of subjects that appear in the finale of the opera's second act.
	members.tripod.com /~Nash_K/Bride.html (246 words)

	The Bartered Bride
		The second of Smetana's eight completed operas, Prodana nevesta, known in English as The Bartered Bride, was composed between 1863 and 1866 and first produced at the Provisional Theater in Prague on May 30 of the latter year.
		The English title, The Bartered Bride, is really not an accurate one, since the heroine of the drama is not a bride but a fiancée.
		The brief but striking example in The Bartered Bride is danced by the men on the village green following their chorus at the inn in praise of beer, at the opening of Act II.
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=composition&composition_id=2146 (682 words)

	THE ROMANCE READER reviews: Bartered Bride by Anne Avery
		This seemingly obvious statement reflects the trouble I have with romances presumably set in the middle ages which do not reflect the realities of the era.
		Instead, he is a very wealthy London merchant who is buying a noble bride for the immense sum of 100 silver pennies.
		What sets Bartered Bride apart from many medieval romances is the excellent portrayal of England in the throes of civil conflict.
	www.theromancereader.com /avery-bartered.html (808 words)

	The Bartered Bride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bedrich Smetana's The Bartered Bride, which was first made popular through its brilliant profusion of spontaneous, folk-like melody, has become one of the most successful scores to emerge from the eastern European flowering of nationalistic opera in the late 19th century.
		The gullible son, Vasek, is seduced by Esmerelda, a lovely young circus performer, into joining the circus as a dancing bear.
		The parents' plans are frustrated and Kecal has been outwitted, but all join in hailing the new bride and groom.
	www.msu.edu /user/fannrobe/Bartered.html (249 words)

	The Bartered Bride
		Sweeping from the exotic temptations of the Orient to the ruthless grandeur of 19th century London, The Bartered Bride is a compelling romantic adventure that begins with a daring act of courage.
		After building a fortune amid the splendor and dangers of the China seas, American adventurer and merchant prince Gavin Elliott is sailing for London, where he intends to establish himself in the society that forced his family to leave in disgrace when Gavin was only a child.
		A dozen years later she is returning home as widow and mother when a pirate attack separates her from her beloved daughter and condemns Alex to a life of servitude.
	www.maryjoputney.com /barteredbridemore.htm (240 words)

	The Bartered Bride Opens Nov. 13
		A marriage broker offers Jenik 300 Gulden to give up his love for Marenka, and he agrees to the barter on the condition that Marenka will marry "none but Micha's son." Marenka is crushed and the village outraged, but Jenik reveals a surprising twist that brings the story to its happy conclusion.
		In another instance of everything old being new again, The Bartered Bride will be sung in English in a translation by Judith Layng, director of Oberlin Opera Theater from 1979 to 1996.
		The conductor is Steven Smith, associate professor of conducting and music director of the Oberlin Conservatory orchestras.
	www.oberlin.edu /con/bkstage/200210/bartered_bride.html (383 words)

	MDT - CHAN3128-2, Chandos Opera in English CD
		Composing The Bartered Bride was quite a struggle for Smetana, and his second opera was received at its premiere with frigid indifference.
		It is these qualities which ensure that The Bartered Bride is the one opera by Smetana which will always find a place in any theatre and in any language.
		Smetana's Bartered Bride used to be a popular repertoire work in the UK but lately has fallen from favour.
	www.mdt.co.uk /MDTSite/product/NR_October/CHAN3128-2.htm (449 words)

	Amazon.ca: Bartered Bride/From My Life: Music: Bedrich Smetana,Goeffrey Simon,London Symphony Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bartered Bride - Overture And Dances: II Dance Of The Villagers
		The Bartered Bride - Overture And Dances: V Fanfare
		The Bartered Bride, opera Dance of the Villagers
	www.amazon.ca /Bartered-Bride-Life-Bedrich-Smetana/dp/B000000ADK (282 words)

	The Bartered Bride - Royal Opera House - Cultured Gent review \| MODERN GENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Of course, The Bartered Bride is a classic if you are Czech; otherwise it is just a charming and enjoyable evening for the rest of us, as long as the production and singing is good.
		Marenka's third-act aria takes her to the edge of despair before Jenik drags her back by revealing that he is Micha's eldest son and, as a condition of the bartered contract, is eligible not only to marry her but pick up the 10,000 crowns he feel is his inheritance.
		Smetana wrote The Bartered Bride because people said his work was too heavy and, although he was ambivalent about the opera, it remains his most popular.
	www.moderngent.com /site/bartered_bride.php (789 words)

	Gianni Schicchi Puccini
		Vasek is immediately smitten by her and renounces his intended bride.
		But he finally agrees to renounce Marenka in exchange for 300 florins, on one condition: Marenka should marry no-one except Micha’s son, and as soon as they are married, Krusina’s debt to Micha should be cancelled.
		Krusina is impressed that Jenik has given up his claim on Marenka but the villagers are astonished and indignant that Jenik should have bartered his bride-to-be.
	members.tripod.com /pendleopera/bartered_bride.htm (805 words)

	[No title]
		A discussion of character, plot, and setting for Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride and how to introduce them to students are the major components of this lesson.
		Students either listen to or read along as the synopsis of The Bartered Bride is presented.
		Train students to be "opera docents." Have them develop a presentation based upon the class mural of the characters in The Bartered Bride and share this with other classes and parents.
	www.nycopera.com /learning/programs/elementary/_old/bride/lesson1.html (697 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Theatre - Bartered Bride Review - The Bartered Bride's worth the price
		Czech composer Bedrich Smetana and librettist Karel Sabina leave little doubt as to the direction their work is taking from the get-go, titling their opera The Bartered Bride.
		From there, they build a delightfully silly little confection of romantic intrigue in a Bavarian village, as young lovers conspire to skirt the strictures of a traditional arranged marriage, in favour of a more romantic union.
		But by trading on The Bartered Bride's humour and its folksy charm, the COC has made it a delightful evening nonetheless.
	jam.canoe.ca /Theatre/Reviews/B/Bartered_Bride/2000/09/25/741752.html (400 words)

	[No title]
		The major focus of this lesson is to enrich the study of The Bartered Bride by integrating the theme of the circus.
		Once an understanding of the circus is attained, it should be woven into The Bartered Bride in the subject areas of music, creative writing and visual art as it appears in the opera.
		Thinking about these instruments and the animal acts, have students find where these might be appropriate in The Bartered Bride.
	www.nycopera.com /learning/programs/elementary/_old/bride/lesson2.html (479 words)

	Amazon.fr : Smetana: The Bartered Bride / From My Life: Musique: Bedrich Smetana,Geoffrey Simon,London Symphony ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), opera, JB 1:100 Dance of the Villagers
		Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), opera, JB 1:100 Polka
		Prodaná nevesta (The Bartered Bride), opera, JB 1:100 Fanfare
	www.amazon.fr /Smetana-Bartered-Bride-My-Life/dp/B000000ADK (426 words)

	Smetana: Overture to ``The Bartered Bride'' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In fact, when he was working on his second opera,, he used a German translation of the text as an aid in composition.
		The Bartered Bride, which might more aptly be titled The Sold Bride, relates a comic tale of love and trickery.
		In brief, Marenka is in love with Jenik, but her parents plan to wed her to the son of Micha, a local landlord.
	fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /geoff/prognotes/smetana/brideOv.html (233 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bartered Bride: Books: Mary Jo Putney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The plot has enough twists and turns to satisfy the most devoted of mystery fans while the relationship between hero and heroine is complicated and the secondary characters well drawn.
		This final volume in a popular trilogy (The Wild Child; The China Bride) is a rich and realistic 19th-century historical romance.
		The heroine, Alexandra Warren, is a young widow who is traveling back to England from Austrailia with her young daughter when their ship is attacked by pirates in the East Indies and Alex is sold into slavery.
	www.amazon.com /Bartered-Bride-Mary-Jo-Putney/dp/0345437055 (1953 words)

	Sheikh's Bartered Bride
		The Sheikh’s Bartered Bride is just another reason on a long list, why I read her work over and over again!
		Lucy Monroe excels at the short and the sexy, and with The Sheikh's Bartered Bride, she's upped the sensual ante for future sheikh romances.
		"Hi Lucy I just got around to reading the sheikhs bartered bride and I could not put it down the story line was great and I fell in love with the characters.
	www.lucymonroe.com /AbouttheBooksTSBB.htm (1377 words)

	New Page 1
		Amy is the heroine of The Bartered Bride—but she’s had a name change.
		When she reached the age of sixteen, she decided she didn’t feel like an Amy anymore, so now she goes by her middle name of Alexandra, Alex for short.
		“In THE BARTERED BRIDE, master storyteller Mary Jo Putney once again demonstrates her extraordinary talent for crafting compelling, deeply moving romances with suspenseful endings and characters that readers will remember long after the last page is turned.
	www.maryjoputney.com /barteredbridem2.htm (573 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bartered Bride: Books: Elizabeth Mansfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Frederich bartered his freedom for the love of his daughters even at the expense of his need for revenge.
		Caroline Holt bartered her freedom and excepted her humiliation for the sake of her unborn child.
		Her misplaced love for a refined, educated man caused her surrender to his seduction.
	www.amazon.com /Bartered-Bride-Elizabeth-Mansfield/dp/1557732825 (1650 words)

	The Bartered Bride
		This highly entertaining production of The Bartered Bride used fifties costumes and scenery to create a modern context for the restoration plot.
		The stage is flooded with people from start to finish, the size and personality of the company as a whole conveying a real sense of a town community.
		Meanwhile a marriage broker plays everyone for as much money as possible, and succeeds, so everyone thinks, in persuading Jenik to barter his sweetheart away to his rival.
	www.dailyinformation.co.uk /reviews/opera/bartered.htm (462 words)

	Bedrich Smetana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Till glädje (1950) (overture from "Prodaná neveta [The Bartered Bride]")
		Hare Conditioned (1945) (from "Dance of the Comedians" from "The Bartered Bride") (uncredited)
		Cestou krízovou (1938) (aria "Proc bychom se netesili" from opera "Prodaná neveta [The Bartered Bride]") (aria "Znám jednu dívku" from opera ""Prodaná neveta [The Bartered Bride]")
	us.imdb.com /name/nm0806845 (552 words)

	The Bartered Bride @ Royal Opera House, London: opera review
		It's a sure sign of disaster when the loudest cheer during an opera comes in response to a circus divertissement.
		So he disappears and concocts a plot whereby Marenka is bartered to Mícha's son.
		The girl is nearly married off to Vaek, the younger son, but up pops Jeník at the end to reveal his true identity and claim Marenka as his bride.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/bartered-bride_0106.htm (732 words)

	Smetana's Bartered Bride returns to NYC Juilliard
		Without any doubt, it is the most charming and delightful opera ever written by a Czech composer Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884) in spirit of Czech folklore, who enjoys an asteem in his native land.
		While Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904) is far better known abroad, Smetana is known to most non-Czech music lovers by his dynamic overture and the dance of comedians, both from the Bartered Bride opera.
		In the US the Smetana's Bartered Bride had its premier on February 19,1909 in the NYC Metropolitan Opera House and about 94 productions since.
	www.columbia.edu /~js322/nyl/2005/prodana.html (696 words)

	The Best Reviews: Mary Jo Putney, The Bartered Bride Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The BARTERED BRIDE is the sequel to THE CHINA BRIDE and THE WILD CHILD.
		The story is told largely in flashbacks as Gavin sits in his cell and Read more...
		Third in the nineteenth century trilogy of THE WILD CHILD and THE CHINA BRIDE, Ms.
	thebestreviews.com /book1847 (390 words)

	Smetana: The Bartered Bride (Highlights) (Remaster) - Wal-Mart
		The Bartered Bride: Act I - As I Said Before, Old Fellow - John Holmes, Bryan Drake, Ann Robson
		The Bartered Bride: Act I - Polka - James Lockhart, The Sadler's Wells Opera Chorus and Orchestra
		The Bartered Bride: Act III - Ah, Cruel Fate...
	www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2416468 (676 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Preview: The Bartered Bride, Royal Opera House, London
		For a man who is having a triumphant winter - incarnating a heart-rending Captain Vere in the English National Opera Billy Budd, and starring as the sweetly halfwitted Vasek in Covent Garden's colourful revival of Smetana's The Bartered Bride - Timothy Robinson is surprisingly diffident about his career.
		But this diffidence may be the key to his remarkable ability to get under his characters' skin.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/features/article335695.ece (380 words)

	The Aria Database - Database Search Results
		from Act I of the Czech opera, The Bartered Bride (Prodaná Nevesta) by Bedrich Smetana
		from Act II of the Czech opera, The Bartered Bride (Prodaná Nevesta) by Bedrich Smetana
		from Act III of the Czech opera, The Bartered Bride (Prodaná Nevesta) by Bedrich Smetana
	aria-database.com /cgi-bin/aria-search.pl?opera=The+Bartered+Bride+... (821 words)

	The Bartered Bride : Guide to Musical Theatre
		The Bartered Bride : Guide to Musical Theatre
		The Bartered Bride is a national institution in the Czech Republic but has assumed the mantel of folk opera outside Smetana's homeland.
		It is spring in a Bohemian village and holiday time.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_b/bartered_bride.htm (247 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - The Bartered Bride
		Yet Gavin cannot refuse to help a countrywoman, especially one who touches his heart and soul with her indomitable spirit.
		Yet attraction and affection soon overcome the trauma of their first meeting.
		Graced by Mary Jo Putney's priceless eloquence, The Bartered Bride captivates the heart with memorable characters and powerful emotions that will stay with you forever.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=52987327 (452 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)