Daniel Slater’s production of Smetana’s great nationalistic opera has been one of Opera North’s most popular successes in recent years. Though the staging is over 15 years old, the concept has hardly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coming from a rural backwater in a sparsely populated land boasting just one opera house, the Norwegian soprano Solveig Kringelborn is the archetypal small-town girl made good. Coming from a rural ...

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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 ...

BOSTON — As I listen to the overture of Bedřich Smetana’s "The Bartered Bride" in preparation for my call with Boston Midsummer Opera music director and conductor Susan Davenny Wyner, I sense ...

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.