Bedrich Smetana deals with love In his earthy opera "The Bartered Bride." It may not be politically correct — the bride is bought, after all — but everything turns out happily in the end. Here's an ...

3 Interview: 'Adele Had Never Written a Song Before She Came To Us': Principal Stuart Worden On The BRIT School We haven't seen a lot of Smetana's The Bartered Bride in the UK recently. Bohemia's best ...

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 ...

So it was a joy to see a carefully reduced BBC Symphony Orchestra at the heart of things, hypersensitive to doyen Jiří Bělohlávek's canny interchange of village band and Wagnerian sounds. There were ...

The Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York. side 1: The Bartered Bride: Overture (beginning); side 2: The Bartered Bride: Overture (conclusion) (Columbia 19003-D). North, James N.. New York ...

It’s a sure sign of disaster when the loudest cheer during an opera comes in response to a circus divertissement. Sadly, this was the case in this, the Royal Opera’s second revival of Francesca ...

MUKILTEO — Another free concert, this time featuring themes from opera, will be presented in a matinee March 6 by the Mukilteo Community Orchestra. Conductor and artistic director Trevor Lutzenhiser ...

“My music is rhythmic because I am Czech… the natural music of the Czechs is rhythm – strong and agile rhythm.” (Martinů). How well the conductor Jac van Steen and the director Paul Curran understood ...