Tomb of Karel Sabina on Olšany Cemetery in Prague
The Bartered Bride
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The Bartered Bride is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina. The work is generally regarded as a major contribution towards the development o
Karel Sabina
…constant police pressure afterwards and his extreme poverty. Being an outcast - his books were no longer sold, on posters (such as the one for the Prodaná nevěsta – whose libretto was seen by some people as Sabina's refutation of the accusations until Miroslav Ivanov's investigation in 1971 published in Ivanov's…
Cover of the score, 1919
Disegno per copertina di libretto, drawing for La sposa venduta (undated).
The tune of the opening chorus to The Bartered Bride (English and German texts, published 1909)
Open-air performance at the Zoppot Waldoper, near Danzig, July 1912