Erwin Schück (1879 – 1919), better known by his stage name Erwin Sembach, was an opera singer with the Vienna Volksoper during its earliest years of producing operas, immediately before and during World War I.
 His greatest roles there were Masetto in Mozart's "Don Giovanni", Papageno in Mozart's "The Magic Flute", and Krušina in Smetana's "The Bartered Bride".
Chariots of Fur is a seven-minute "Looney Tunes" short released in 1994 by Warner Bros. It features Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner and was directed by Chuck Jones, who introduced the pair in 1949.
 As in other shorts of the Road Runner series, Wile E. tries to catch his potential prey through use of various devices.
 This film's soundtrack uses music from the Bedřich Smetana opera "The Bartered Bride".
 It was released in American and Canadian theaters preceding the film, "Richie Rich".
 It was the first time a new short of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner that had been released theatrically since 1980.
 This was the final Coyote/Road Runner short to be directed by Jones.
 The title is a parody of "Chariots of Fire".
Karel Hruška (14 June 1891 – 17 October 1966) was a Czech tenor, radio personality, and actor of the stage and film.
 He was an unusual singer for his day in that he recorded and performed both classical and popular music.
 Possessing a great comic talent, he specialized in creating character parts on the opera stage.
 He was a much loved Principál komediantů in Bedřich Smetana's "The Bartered Bride", notably portraying the role a total of 855 times during his career.
Alexander Lewis is an English-Australian musical theatre actor who most recently portrayed Vašek in the joint production of The Bartered Bride by New York's Metropolitan Opera and The Juilliard School.
The Bartered Bride (, "The Sold Bride") is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina.
 The work is generally regarded as a major contribution towards the development of Czech music.
 It was composed during the period 1863–66, and first performed at the Provisional Theatre, Prague, on 30 May 1866 in a two-act format with spoken dialogue.
Eleanora Ehrenbergů (sometimes spelled Eleanora Ehrenbergová or Eleanora Ehrenberg) (1 November 1832 – 30 August 1912) was a Czech operatic soprano.
 In 1854 she made her professional opera debut at the Estates Theatre in the title role of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor".
 In 1866 she created the role of Mařenka in the world première of Bedřich Smetana's "The Bartered Bride", and in 1868 she portrayed Jitka in the premiere of Smetana's "Dalibor".
 She retired from the stage sometime in the 1880s.
"The Cunning Peasant" was written at a time when there was a lack of high-quality Czech dramatic writers.
 In his 1995 notes to the Supraphon recording, Milan Pospíšil indicates that Veselý did not solve that problem.
 His libretto demonstrates talent but also uncritical self-confidence and recycles traditional plot elements and even the names of characters.
 Both Jeník and Václav, for example, are based on models with similar names in "The Bartered Bride".
 The influence of the latter opera is further evidenced by the choice of a rustic setting.
 Similarities with the plot of "The Marriage of Figaro" have also been noted.
The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, "wife of the artist John Piper, who had been a friend of the composer since 1935 and had provided designs for several of the operas".
 The libretto is based on the novella "The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James.
 The opera was commissioned by the Venice Biennale and given its world premiere on 14 September 1954, at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice.
 The original recording was made during that year, with the composer conducting.
The Bartered Bride (German: "Die verkaufte Braut" ) is a 1932 German film directed by Max Ophüls and based on the comic opera of the same name by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana.
Skočná is a rapid Slavic folk-dance, normally in metre.
 Czech composers Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana used this dance, the latter in the third act of "The Bartered Bride" where it is danced by a circus troup and is often known as the Dance of the Comedians.
 Dvořák's 5th, 7th and 11th Slavonic Dances are in the form of the skočná.

Question: Were the libretto's of The Turn of the Screw and The Bartered Bride by the same person?
Answer: no