Radio New Zealand Concert network
Sunday 28th of December 2014 at 6 - 8.35 pm
Sunday 9th of January at 3 - 6 pm
INTRODUCTION
SMETANA: The Bartered Bride, an opera in three acts
The peasant Krusina, gave his daughter, Marenka, in marriage, as collateral for a loan that was made before she was born. But she is in love with another …
Marenka........................... Dana Buresová
Jenik................................. Tomás Juhás
Kecal................................ Jozef Benci
Vasek................................ Ales Vorácek
Micha............................... Gustáv Belácek
Háta.................................. Lucie Hilscherová
Krusina............................. Svatopluk Sem
Ludmilla........................... Stanislava Jirku
Ringmaster....................... Jaroslav Brezina
Esmeralda........................ Katerina Kneziková
Indian............................... Ondrej Mráz
First child......................... Maxim Dusek
Second child..................... Babette Rust
BBC Singers, BBC SO/Jirí Belohlávek (Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 2119-20)
Sunday 9th of January at 3 - 6 pm
Krusina......................... Derek Hammond Stroud
Ludmila......................... Elizabeth Cross
Marenka....................... Teresa Stratas
Háta.............................. Jean Kraft
Vasek........................... Jon Vickers
Jeník............................. Nicolai Gedda
Kecal............................ Martti Talvela
Tobias........................... John Cheek
Circus Barker................ Alan Crofoot
Esmeralda..................... Colette Boky
Indian............................ Andrij Dobriansky
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/James Levine
In honor of James Levine’s 40th anniversary season with the Met, the company offers a special broadcast from the its archives: Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, a work Levine has conducted in two full runs at the Met and on tour with the Met Orchestra. The December 2, 1978 performance featured Levine leading an exceptional cast that included Teresa Stratas, Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, and Martti Talvela.
Sunday 30th of December 2007 at 3 pm
SMETANA: Die Verkaufte Braut an opera in three acts
Kezal............................ Gottlob Frick
Marie............................ Pilar Lorengar
Hans............................. Fritz Wunderlich
Wenzel.......................... Karl-Ernst Mercker
Micha........................... Ivan Sardi
Kruschina...................... Marcel Cordes
Kathinka....................... Nada Puttar
Agnes........................... Sieglinde Wagner
Springer........................ Ernst Krukowski
Esmeralda..................... Gertrud Freedmann
Muff.............................. Walter Stoll
RIAS Chamber Chorus, Bamberg SO
Rudolf Kempe (EMI 3 81872)
The wonderful thing about this recording is the presence of the fabulous Fritz Wunderlich, who died too young in an accident.This is the record I own.
The Bartered Bride (English)
- 2004, Charles Mackerras (conductor), Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Opera Chorus; Neal Davies, Yvonne Howard, Susan Gritton, Geoffrey Moses, Diana Montague, Timothy Robinson, Paul Charles, Peter Rose, Robin Leggate, Yvette Bonner, Kit Hesketh-Harvey
This Czech opera has been performed in Palmerston North in the past, by the Perkel opera company, with Richard Phillips (scholar of East Asian studies at Auckland University) as the stuttering lover.
Here in Palmerston North, John Ward's Gramophone Room (88.1, 106.7 fm) is broadcasting the English version conducted by Charles Mackerras (a great Australian, who usually directs original Czech versions).Here is a comparative table of the Czech and German names for the characters (the libretto was first written in German, then in Czech, then back into German.
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