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The bartered bride / Bedřich Smetana.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Smetana, Bedřich, 1824-1884, composer, composer.
- Standardized Title:
- Prodaná nevěsta. English
- Language:
- Czech
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 21 min., 38 sec.)) : sound, colo
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1978]
- Language Note:
- Sung in English; English subtitles; translated from the Czech.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- video file streaming video file
- Summary:
- Every bit of the spontaneous charm that infuses Smetana's colorful opera is conveyed in this English-language performance by a spectacular cast. Teresa Stratas as Mařenka is determined to marry her lover Jenik (Nicolai Gedda), but her father in under obligation to Micha and wants her to marry Micha's son--the stuttering, rather foolish Vašek (Jon Vickers in a tour-de-force comic performance). Fortunately Jeník has a secret of his own and it all ends well. James Levine and the Met orchestra bring out the Bohemian color and rhythm of this enchanting score, and Pavel Smok's choreography adds a delightful flair.
- Contents:
- Opening credits
- Overture
- Still got strength to face the worse with
- Don't I get my kiss today?
- You won't be getting me to dance today
- If there were another woman
- All the village keeps on saying
- Home is Moravia, farm and family
- But that's past and done with!
- Oh! They're here!
- Get this straight you've got no option!
- Micha? Him, I've met through business, never his children
- Perfect manners, he's praised to the skies for.
- Here's Mařenka
- Well, your sweet heart's due for sacking
- Jeník won't let me go!
- Grab a partner, form a couple
- Good beer's a friend to man
- Furiant
- M-m-mama th-th-thinks it's time
- Bet you're the feast day bridegroom who's to marry Mařenka
- Girls are going mad for you
- There's no doubt she's your type
- When I'm talking business talk, then you might at least stay
- Once you've given up Mařenka, there's cah to ease the heartache
- Black and white! Thinks he's brought off his barter
- Need some witnesses! Get some quickly!
- S-scared to death!
- Celebrated sirs, ladies and gentlemen
- Vivace
- Great! Can't wait to see it!
- Even your own mama won't know who you are
- O, I don't know what to do.
- What's this? Says he won't!
- No! No!
- Hey Vašek! Hey, don't go hide!
- Think it over Mařenka, don't say no
- O, let me be! Just let me be!
- Give me my Kiss!
- Ah, ha! Still waiting for me to fork the cash out?
- So well then, Mařenka what's it to be?
- Bows and closing credits.
- Participant:
- Teresa Stratas ; Nicolai Gedda ; Jon Vickers ; Martti Talvela ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet ; James Levine, conductor.
- Credits:
- Director, John Dexter.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 1978 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 859396280
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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