Music for the Eyes - Episode 2 - The Bartered Bride

In this episode, ‘Music for the Eyes’ takes Smetana’s ‘The Bartered Bride’ as its focus alongside visual art, looking at national identity and culture, before running away to the circus.

GUESTS THIS WEEK
Paul Curran – Director
Lada Valešová – Language Coach

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PRESENTERS
Johnny Langridge
Dr Imogen Tedbury

PRODUCER
Nicholas B. Brennan

COVER IMAGE
George Seurat, Circus Sideshow, 1887-88. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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ARTWORKS THIS WEEK
Jean-François Millet, The Gleaners, 1857. Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Ilya Repin, Religious Procession in the Kursk Province, 1883. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Karel Purkyně, Portrait of a Blacksmith, 1860 National Gallery Prague

Print showing the acrobat Richard Sands performing at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, 1853, London, unknown maker. Museum no. S.3754-2013. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Edgar Degas, Study for Miss Lala at the Cirque Fernando, 1879. Speed Art Museum, Kentucky

George Seurat, Circus Sideshow, 1887-88. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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PRODUCTION VIDEO CREDITS
Mařenka: Natalya Romaniw
Jeník: Brenden Gunnell
Kecal: Joshua Bloom
Vašek: Stuart Jackson
Krušina: Peter Savidge
Ludmila: Heather Shipp
Mícha: Paul Whelan
Háta: Anne-Marie Owens
Circus Master: Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts
Esmeralda: Lara Marie Müller
Circus Performers: Daniel Edwards, Joshua Frazer, Ludo Helin, Malik Ibheis, Anesta Mathurin, Jennifer Robinson

Garsington Opera Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra

Music: Bedřich Smetana
Text: Karel Sabina
Conductor: Jac van Steen
Director: Paul Curran
Lighting Designer: Howard Hudson
Choreographer: Darren Royston
Set: Kevin Knight

Production photos © Clive Barda

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