jan 1, 1866 - The Bartered Bride
Description:
a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.Competing Reputations at Home and Abroad
1. Smetana’s comic operas presented harmonious existence between the upper classes and the peasantry.
2. The best known of this is The Bartered Bride.
3. The opera is known for its folk life and characters demonstrated through national dance rhythms.
4.At home Smetana’s more progressive compositions were favored; abroad, the more
folksy ones.
5. A pan-Balkan movement arose in mid century, but Smetana was not interested in it.
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Date:
jan 1, 1866
Now
~ 160 years ago