Bartered Bride, The

noun

1. a comic opera (1866) by Bedřich Smetana.

Example Sentences

Other classical sound-alikes abound: the openings of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Smetana's overture to The Bartered Bride; the first few notes of the Prize Song from Wagner's Die Meistersinger and the slow movement of the Beethoven Ninth.

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