This work's composer claimed he wrote it to spite those who accused him of being "Wagnerian" and incapable of writing anything light. A prospective suitor in this work sings, stuttering, about how his mother told him to win the protagonist's love, and because he is attracted to Esmeralda, is later persuaded to fill in at a travelling circus, dressed in the costume of a (*) bear. The protagonist has an Act III aria in which she expresses her feelings of betrayal after finding out that her beloved, who had earlier praised love as superior to beer, accepted 300 florins. The opera features dances like the furiant and skočná, and at the end, Mícha's eldest son is revealed to be Jeník, so the latt
This work's composer claimed he wrote it to spite those who accused him of being "Wagnerian" and incapable of writing anything light. A prospective suitor in this work sings, stuttering, about how his mother told him to win the protagonist's love, and because he is attracted to Esmeralda, is later persuaded to fill in at a travelling circus, dressed in the costume of a (*) bear. The protagonist has an Act III aria in which she expresses her feelings of betrayal after finding out that her beloved, who had earlier praised love as superior to beer, accepted 300 florins. The opera features dances like the furiant and skočná, and at the end, Mícha's eldest son is revealed to be Jeník, so the latter is able to marry Mařenka. A landmark in the development of Czech national music, this is, for 10 points, which Smetana comic opera about a guy trading his fiancée for money?
This work's composer claimed he wrote it to spite those who accused him of being "Wagnerian" and incapable of writing anything light.
The Bartered Bride [or Prodaná nevěsta or The Sold Fiancée]