Organization

Conductor

Elena Schwarz

Stage director

Stage director (+2)

Barbara Wysocka

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Barbara Hanicka

Costume designer

Julia Kornacka

Lighting designer

Benedikt Zehm

Soprano

Corinne Winters

Katya

Tenor (+1)

Adam Smith

Boris Grigorjevic

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Natascha Petrinsky

Marfa Ignatevna Kabanova

Tenor (+4)

Benjamin Hulett

Vana Kudrjas

Baritone (+2)

Paweł Trojak

Kuligin

Bass-baritone (+4)

Willard White

Savel Prokofjevic Dikoj

Tenor (+2)

Robert Lewis

A bystander

Oliver Johnston

Tichon Ivanyc Kabanov

Ena Pongrac

Varvara

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+3)

Benedict Kearns

Soprano (+1)

Giulia Scopelliti

Feklusa

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Karine Motyka

Glasa

Alexandra Guérinot

Zena

Assistant Conductor

Michael Cobb

Opéra de Lyon

Orchestra

Lyon Opera Orchestra

Chorus

Lyon Opera Choir

Others

Studio of the Opéra de Lyon

Opéra Nouvel de Lyon

In 1917, Leoš Janáček, 63, met the young mother Kamila Stösslová, 26, and fell madly in love with her, to the point of writing her more than 700 letters and making her the muse of the works he would compose in the eleven years he has left to live.
Ambivalent Fascination: Kamila doesn't like her. From the extraordinary vitality of the heroines of Diary of a Disappeared or The Cunning Little Fox to the harshness of Emilia in The Makropoulos Affair or to the suicide of the heroine of Katia Kabanova, Janáček's unhappy passion powerfully inspires his writing and his female characters. For the staging, the choice of the young Polish artist Barbara Wysocka, violinist, actress, creator of extraordinary images and environments, theater and opera director is the promise of a surprising discovery.
Two other women are at the helm: the young conductor Elena Schwarz, and the scenographer Barbara Hanicka.

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