30 June 2018, Theater Aachen, Aachen, Germany in collaboration with Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln Leoš Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (premiere) Directed by: Tamara Heimbrock, music director: Raimund Laufen Cast: Yoonsoo Kil / Liza Sparovec (Vixen), Andrea Graff / Minyoung Kim (Fox), Rein Saar / Jeong Daegyun (Forester), Takahiro Namiki / Jiyuan Qiu (Schoolmaster, Mosquito) … Read more
21 May 2018, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Leoš Janáček: From the House of the Dead (premiere) Directed by: Frank Castorf, music director: Simone Young Cast: Peter Rose (Gorjančikov), Evgeniya Sobotnikova (Aljeja), Aleš Briscein (Luka), Charles Workman (Skuratov), Bo Skovhus (Šiškov) and others Language: Czech with German and English subtitles Following performances: 26 and 30 May, 3, 5 and 8 … Read more
21 May 2018, Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Leoš Janáček: From the House of the Dead (premiere) Directed by: Frank Castorf, music director: Simone Young Cast: Peter Rose (Gorjančikov), Evgeniya Sobotnikova (Aljeja), Aleš Briscein (Luka), Charles Workman (Skuratov), Bo Skovhus (Šiškov) and others Language: Czech with German and English subtitles Following performances: 26 and 30 May, 3, 5 and 8 … Read more
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
4 – 7 May 2018, Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington Spa, UK Leamington Music Festival Weekend Seven concerts of music by Antonín Rejcha, Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, Josef Suk, Bohuslav Martinů, Ervín Schulhoff, Klement Slavický and Luboš Fišer Ensemble 360, Pražák String Quartet, Guarneri Trio, Ivan Klánský, Jana Vonášková-Nováková, Martin Kasík, Nicholas Wearne
On 1 April, Oper Frankfurt introduced their new production of Leoš Janáček’s last opera From the House of the Dead. It was created by Italian conductor Tito Ceccherini and German-French director David Hermann, who had for the last time worked with Janáček’s music only two years ago, directing The Makropulos Affair in the renowned Deutsche Oper Berlin. … Read more
After 45 years, Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen returned to the stage of Theater Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The premiere on 24 March has already received a very positive critical response. The praise has concerned mainly the direction by Mascha Pörzgen, who perfectly balanced both levels of the story – a beast fable and an allegorical drama – and the performance of … Read more
Conductor Will Humburg concluded his three-year-long Janáček cycle at Staatstheater Darmstadt with a new production of The Makropulos Affair. The theatre’s general music director is already an expert when it comes to the Moravian composer; apart from Jenůfa and The Cunning Little Vixen in Darmstadt, he had also conducted Katya Kabanova a couple of years ago in Bonn. The directress Eva-Maria Höckmayer tried to depict especially the … Read more
For the first time in its history, the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, presented From the House of the Dead, the last opera by composer Leoš Janáček. Created in co-production with Brussels’ La Monnaie theatre and Opéra National de Lyon, the performance is remarkable for the involvement of several Czech and Slovak singers; apart … Read more
On 3 March, Theater Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate) presented a new production of Leoš Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen. As the director Alexander von Pfeil put it, he had decided to focus not only on the depiction of the natural world, but also on revealing the Kafkaesque traces of the opera. The conductor is the theatre’s music director and chief conductor … Read more
