Part bubbly operetta and part Bohemian folk pageant, The Bartered Bride is a romantic comedy set in a Czech community in Texas in 1948.
Opera Series
THE BARTERED BRIDE
Music by Bedřich Smetana
Libretto by Karel Sabina
New English translation by CCM faculty artist Kathleen Kelly
Levi Hammer, conductor
Audrey Chait, director
Mařenka is arranged to marry the son of a rich landowner, but she is in love with someone else. Defiantly, Mařenka vows before her parents that she will only accept her love, Jeník, as her husband. As her parents and the matchmaker fight for the arranged marriage, the young lovers fight against tradition in order to be together.
Prices start at $39.50; student and group discounts available.
Phone: 513-556-4183
2019/11/21 - 2019/11/24
CCM's Patricia Corbett Theater
290 CCM Boulevard, Cincinnati, OH 45221