Organization

Conductor

Axel Kober

Stage director

Stage director (+3)

Damiano Michieletto

Set designer

Set designer (+2)

Paulo Fantin

Costume designer

Costume designer (+2)

Carla Teti

Lighting designer

Alessandro Carletti

Choreographer

Choreographer (+1)

Thomas Wilhelm

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Hanna Schwarz

Old Buryjovka

Tenor (+3)

Stephan Rügamer

Laca Klemen

Tenor (+2)

Pavol Breslik

Steva Buryja

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Rosie Aldridge

Sacristan Buryja

Soprano (+2)

Vida Mikneviciute

Jenufa

Bass-baritone (+3)

David Oštrek

Mayor

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Natalia Skrycka

Mayor's wife

Soprano (+1)

Maria Kokareva

Karolka

Ekaterina Chayka-Rubinstein

Pastuchnyňa

Soprano (+3)

Adriane Queiroz

Barena

Victoria Randem

Jano

Rebecka Wallroth

Tetka

Bass (+4)

Grigory Shkarupa

Starek

Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( State Opera Berlin )

Chorus

Staatsopernchor Berlin

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

The rigid morals of a village community put a young woman under pressure: Jenůfa is pregnant by her lover Števa, who turns away from her and withdraws his promise of marriage. After the child saw the light of day, her stepmother, the village sexton, also worries about Jenůfa's reputation and her own future. When Laca, another candidate for marriage, comes up with the idea that life without the child would be better for all of them ...

Leoš Janáček's third opera, with its echoes of folk music from the composer's homeland, became his first real success and the »Moravian National Opera«. Janáček's music also has a special quality: even if it explores extreme psychological states that lead to violence and infanticide, and relentlessly reveals the inner life of the characters, it does not judge them. The music even attests to the final forgiveness - a message of Janáček's humanism that seems almost impossible after all the gruesome revelations and confessions of guilt at the end of the opera. »Jenůfa« (in Czech »Její pastorkyňa« - »your stepdaughter«) has a special relationship with the State Opera Unter den Linden, because the Berlin premiere in 1924 brought the work its final breakthrough on German stages.

Czech

Jenůfa -  (Jenufa)

Berlin

Germany

Jenůfa Janáček

Staged

Opera

German

English

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Approved

Cast

Stařenka Buryjovka

Laca Klemeň

Števa Buryja

Kostelnička Buryjovka

Jenůfa

Rychtár

Rychtárka