When the work’s level of inspiration rises, so does Bělohlávek’s. In Mařenka’s great Act 3 aria, Bělohlávek’s treatment of lower strings conveys Mařenka’s gut-wrenching dilemma and goes on to enhance ...

There’s no shortage of movie musicals based on popular plays. Far fewer are based on operas. Max Ophüls’s rarely seen 1932 film “The Bartered Bride,” a seventy-six-minute, giddily inventive adaptation ...