Did you know that this year marks the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's 200th birthday? 🎂 🇨🇿 After hearing a disparaging remark from Viennese conductor that Czech composers were incapable of producing great works like their western counterparts, Smetana made a resolution: "I swore there and then that no other than I should beget a native Czech music." Best known for his symphonic cycle 'Má vlast', Smetana is credited with putting Czech music on the map with his 1866 comic opera The Bartered Br

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3.6K views · 111 reactions | "Make the best of youth and freedom..." Opening of Smetana's The Bartered Bride from 12 members of the Chorus of Opera North (careful — it will be a serious earworm!) If you're learning this as part of #FromCouchToChorus, let us know how you're finding the online sessions. | Opera North | Facebook