Organization

Stage director

Damiano Michieletto

Set designer

Paulo Fantin

Costume designer

Carla Teti

Lighting designer

Alessandro Carletti

Conductor

Michael Boder

Nick Fletcher

Singer

Bass

Petri Lindroos

Savel Prokofjevic Dikoj

Tenor

Gert Henning-Jensen

Boris Grigorjevic

Soprano

Gisela Stille

Katya

Contralto

Johanne Bock

Marfa Ignatevna Kabanova

Jacob Skov Andersen

Vana Kudrjas

Eleonora Gravagnola

Paul Curievici

Tichon Ivanyc Kabanov

Jens Christian Tvilum

Mezzo-soprano

Olga Syniakova

Varvara

Baritone

Palle Knudsen

Kuligin

Ditte Errboe Holtze

Glasa

Frida Lund-Larsen

Feklusa

Troels Kortegaard Ullerup

Engel

Royal Danish Opera

Others

Det Kongelige Operakor

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Det Kongelige Kapel

Czech

Kát'a Kabanová -  (Katya Kabanova)

Copenhagen

Denmark

Royal Danish Theatre

Gamle Scene

Kát'a Kabanová Janáček

Public

Katya Kabanova

Danish

Approved

Kát'a Kabanová

She is treated with contempt by her tyrannical mother-in-law, who blames her son for having to share his attention with his young wife. Katja’s emotional starvation sends her tumbling into an affair, with fatal consequences.

Kát’a Kabanová mirrors Janáček’s own painful love life. He experienced an all-consuming infatuation with an unattainable and much younger married woman whom he had met during a spa stay. He also found inspiration in Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Storm, whose characters helped him fulfil the idea of composing an intense musical drama about loneliness and unrequited love.

“A shocking and accomplished drama of truth,” critics wrote about Damiano Michieletto’s staging of Puccini’s Il trittico at the Opera House in 2013. Now, Michieletto is back at the Royal Danish Theatre with the story of Katja Kabanova, which is portrayed through the eyes of the protagonist. A personal drama of forbidden love, dreams of freedom and the consequences of life’s tortuous decisions.

English

Katya Kabanova by Janáček, From (2022/2022), Directed by Damiano Michieletto, Eleonora Gravagnola,, Conductor Michael Boder, Nick Fletcher, Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark

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