Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Though Bedrich Smetana’s DALIBOR—seen this week at Bard SummmerStage in a ...
IT is easy to see why Smetana's Libuse stirs something deep in the Czech soul. The plot may be stilted, the characters two-dimensional, the action a set of patriotic tableaux, but the music - not so ...
1/5. Donald Macleod looks at the historical background of Smetana's childhood when Czech Nationalism was beginning to come of age. The rekindled interest in Czech culture and history is reflected in a ...
Central European nationalism is carried along on a tidal wave of glorious music, much of it operatic and acknowledging freely the intensity of national feeling. Hungary has the work of Ferenc Erkel, ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Experience highlights from the Adelaide Festival and the Bicentennial of Bedřich Smetana, with music by ...
Think of opera, and it’ll be the big names that come to mind — Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Mozart. Beyond those, though, there is a veritable host of composers. The New Penguin Opera Guide, which is as ...
3/5. Donald Macleod tells the story of how Bedrich Smetana began to write opera and takes us through what has become the best loved of his eight operas, The Bartered Bride. We also hear the snippet of ...
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