24 May 2019, Marguerre-Saal, Theater Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Leoš Janáček: Katja Kabanova (premiere) Directed by: Andrea Schwalbach, music director: Elias Grandy / Dietger Holm Cast: Hye-Sung Na (Katja), Carolyn Frank (Kabanicha), Nenad Čiča (Boris), Winfrid Mikus (Tichon), Wilfried Staber (Dikoj), Charlotte Quadt / Shahar Lavi (Varvara) and others Language: Czech Following performances: 26 and 31 May, 8, 13, 20 and 24 … Read more
12 March 2019, Scottish Opera, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Scotland Leoš Janáček: Kátya Kabanová (premiere of a new production in co-production with Theater Magdeburg) Directed by: Stephen Lawless, music director: Stuart Stratford Cast: Laura Wilde (Kátya), Patricia Bardon (Kabanicha), Ric Furman (Boris), Samuel Sakker (Tikhon), Paul Whelan (Dikoy), Hanna Hipp (Varvara) and others Language: Czech Following performances: 14 and 16 Mar (Theatre … Read more
19 January 2019, Staatstheater Mainz, Mainz, Germany Leoš Janáček: Katja Kabanova (premiere) Directed by: Lydia Steier, music director: Paul-Johannes Kirschner Cast: Nadja Stefanoff (Katja), Gundula Hintz (Kabanicha), Steven Ebel (Boris), Derrick Ballard (Dikoj), Alexander Spemann (Tichon), Linda Sommerhage (Varvara) and others Language: Czech Following performances: 27 Jan, 13 Feb, 12 Mar, 10 and 23 Apr 2019
19 May 2018, Stadttheater, Konzert Theater Bern, Bern, Switzerland Leoš Janáček: Katja Kabanova (premiere) Directed by: Florentine Klepper, music director: Kevin John Edusei Cast: Johanni van Oostrum (Katja), Alessandro Liberatore (Boris), Andries Cloete (Tichon), Eleonora Vacchi (Varvara), Andreas Daum (Dikoj), Ursula Füri-Bernhard (Kabanicha) and others In Czech with German subtitles Following performances: 23 and 27 May, 1, … Read more
On 28 January, Opéra National de Lorraine in Nancy, Eastern France, presented a new production of Janáček’s Katya Kabanova. It was created by German opera director Philipp Himmelmann who decided to highlight the tragic nature of the story; the spectators are thus even offered handkerchiefs upon entering. The music director is an Irish conductor Mark Shanahan. Popular … Read more
Less than three years since Jenůfa, Theater Aachen in Aachen, Germany, presented another of Leoš Janáček’s operas – Katya Kabanova. The premiere took place on November 12, led by the theatre’s current music director Justus Thorau. The production was created by the Czech-born director Tibor Torell who presents the story as chain of visions of the heroine, who thus … Read more
As the last production of the 2017 season, the New Zealand Opera presented Leoš Janáček’s Katya Kabanova. It was in a highly acclaimed production by Australian director Patrick Nolan premiered this February in Seattle (for more information see: https://blog.musica.cz/en/articles/detail/811 ). Founded in 2000, the New Zealand Opera produces three shows each year which are then played in multiple places. Katya Kabanova … Read more
On 25th February, Seattle Opera in Washington, USA, premiered a new production of Leoš Janáček’s Katya Kabanova. The Australian director Patrick Nolan, debutant at this opera house, did not set the story into the tsarist Russia, but into a small American town in the 50s. The heroine is thus presented as a modern woman rebelling against the patriarchal environment … Read more
On 25th February, Seattle Opera in Washington, USA, premiered a new production of Leoš Janáček’s Katya Kabanova. The Australian director Patrick Nolan, debutant at this opera house, did not set the story into the tsarist Russia, but into a small American town in the 50s. The heroine is thus presented as a modern woman rebelling against the patriarchal environment … Read more
Saarländisches Staatstheater in Saarbrücken, the capital of the state of Saarland, Germany, opened its 2017 opera season with a premiere of Janáček’s Katja Kabanowa. Written in 1921 and based on A. N. Ostrovsky’s play The Storm, the opera got performed here for the first time in history. The premiere took place on January 14. The director Ben Baur set … Read more
