The Bartered Bride - Prodana nevesta

Bedrich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride is cherished as the Czech national opera and is the most popular Czech opera in the world. This book presents a detailed guide to performing the opera in Czech and is an indispensable aid for those performing the work in English. It includes a performance history, discussions of the dances, word-for-word translations of the Czech, pronunciation through the International Phonetic Alphabet, appendixes, and an index.