Smetana, Bedrich: The Bartered Bride (Prodana nevesta / Die verkaufte Braut) (1863-66, rev.1870) 125'

Comic opera in three acts

Music Text  
Libretto by Karel Sabina; German adaptation by Max Kalbeck; new German translation by Walter Felsenstein (Cz,E,G)

Scoring
3S,M,4T,Bar,2B,children; chorus; ballet; 2.picc.2.2.2-4.2.3.0-timp-perc:TD/BD/tgl/cyms-strings; On-stage: picc-tpt-perc:SD/BD/cyms


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World Premiere
5/30/1866
National Theatre, Prague
Unknown


World premiere of version
9/21/1950
Berlin
Unknown