The Bartered Bride - Prodana nevesta: Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation

by Karel Sabina, Bedřich Smetana, Timothy Cheek

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810872609
• ISBN13: 9780810872608
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"