New Zealand Opera - The Bartered Bride Reviews
29 March 2024
Andrew Glover (Vasek), Anna Leese (Marenka)
Conal Coad (Kecal), Anna Leese (Marenka)
Taryn Fiebig (Esmerelda)
Peter Wedd (Jenik), Conal Coad (Kecal, John Antoniou (Krusina), Patricia Wright (Ludmila)
Anna Leese (Marenka), Peter Wedd (Jenik)

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The Bartered Bride

NBR New Zealand Opera


No. of reviews: 4

Comic opera suffers in translation
15 Oct 12 / The Dominion Post
There is much to admire in Daniel Slater's The Bartered Bride
26 Sep 12 / New Zealand Herald
An evening of many pleasures
25 Sep 12 / The Opera Critic
Glorious voices soar above Czechoslovakian-set opera gloom
24 Sep 12 / National Business Review
The Bartered Bride
NBR New Zealand Opera's staging of Smetana's 1866 opera The Bartered Bride updates it to 1972, adds a circus and tosses in plenty of humour.
Production details
Cast
Alexander, Wright, Leese, Green, Medlyn, Glover, Wedd, Coad, Fiebig
(c) von Dohnanyi (d) Slater
Performance dates
22, 25, 27, 29 September 2012, 13, 16, 18, 20 October 2013 (Auckland and Wellington)
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