Prodaná nevěsta

Prodaná nevěsta (2024) is a music film directed by Alice Nellis.

The most popular Czech comic opera, with a libretto by Karel Sabina, marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Bedřich Smetana, in the current production of the National Theater in Prague. For more than 150 years, The Bartered Bride has dominated Czech opera. No one else, not even Smetana himself, has managed to surpass its popularity, which over the years has become part of our national DNA, so to speak. At the time of its creation in the 1860s, however, The Bartered Bride was actually quite a bold experiment – Bedřich Smetana and librettist Karel Sabina masterfully mocked all those who imagined "national opera" as an idyllic picture of the Czech countryside, where national virtues reign supreme.

Cast

Kateřina Kněžíková

Mařenka

Doubravka Součková

Mařenka 2

Richard Samek

Jeník

Jiří Sulženko

Kecal

Josef Moravec

Vašek

Jiří Hájek

Krušina

Lucie Hájková

Ludmila / Esmeralda

Roman Vocel

Mícha

Yvona Škvárová

Háta

Jaroslav Březina

Principal

Martin Kubačák

Director

Gabriela Pyšná

Costume Designer