Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Lotte Verstaen

Feklusa

Samantha Hankey

Varvara

Conductor

Karina Canellakis

Soprano

Amanda Majeski

Katya

Contralto

Katarina Dalayman

Marfa Ignatevna Kabanova

Tenor

Edgaras Montvidas

Boris Grigorjevic

Bass

Clive Bayley

Savel Prokofjevic Dikoj

Marcel Beekman

Tichon Ivanyc Kabanov

Boris Stepanov

Vana Kudrjas

Anna Lapkovskaja

Baritone

Tim Kuypers

Kuligin

Esther Kuiper

Glasa

Het Concertgebouw

Orchestra

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra

Radio Filharmonisch Orkest

Others

Groot Omroepkoor

Omroep Muziek

Russian

Karina Canellakis conducts Kát’a Kabanová

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Karina Canellakis conducts Kát’a Kabanová: Kát'a Kabanová Janáček

Public

Katya Kabanova

Approved

Aus einem Guss', that is how you could characterise this opera by Janácek, cast in one piece. However diverse the ingredients may seem - Moravian folk music, Tchaikovsky's patheticism, Debussy's mysteriousness - in Kát'a Kabanová everything leads ineluctably to the tragic end of the title heroine in a single musical maelstrom. Trapped in a loveless marriage, terrorised by a mother-in-law and abandoned by her secret lover, Kát'a chooses voluntary death. Janácek wrote this opera when he was 67 years old, but he was inspired by his own unattainable lover, Kamila Stösslová.



Kát'a Kabanová conquered the world

His operas are partly based on the Czech and Moravian rhythm of speech, a technique the composer had learnt from Wagner and Moesorgsky as well as from Debussy. But despite the dialogue form, the lyrical-dramatic cantabile actually dominates the vocal soundscape. This, in combination with strongly rhythmical passages and surprising time changes, makes him one of the great modernists of the years between the two world wars. With the premiere in 1921 in the Moravian capital Brno, the very slow conquest of the international opera world began. Nowadays it is impossible to imagine the great repertoire without him .

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Cast

Ensemble

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