La sposa venduta by Smetana, Da (2020/2022), Diretto da Ondřej Havelka, Direttore d'orchestra Jakub Klecker, Jaroslav Kyzlink, Petr Vronský, Janáčkovo divadlo, Brno, Repubblica Ceca

After the successful premiere of his opera debut Brandenburg in Bohemia , Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) decided to compose a truly national opera. Together with the writer Karel Sabina, they chose a rural theme based on Sabin's humorous novel The Eternal Groom . The plot takes us to a Czech village where Jeník and Mařenka, two young people who love each other, live. However, Marenka is to marry the son of a rich farmer, Micha, with whom her father is in debt. Since its premiere, the production by director Ondřej Havelka has rightly been one of the most popular titles in our repertoire. Havelka himself says about her:"The basic staging principle is by no means extravagant, as I admit that I am not a special supporter of violent updates and shifts of classical works to the present. However, this is definitely not the usual, let's call it 'dove' cliché, which the directors often resort to in order not to tarnish the traditional sanctity of the most important Czech national opera. My intention is to create a performance that will be a lively, colorful and especially entertaining musical theater, after all, it is a comic opera. "