Organization

Admin

Bayerische Staatsoper

Regissör

Regissör (+1)

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Kostym designer

Scenograf (+1)

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Scenograf

Ljus designer

Felice Ross

Koreograf

Koreograf (+1)

Claude Bardouil

Dramaturg

Christian Longchamp

Dramaturg (+1)

Lukas Leipfinger

Bas-baryton (+5)

Milan Siljanov

Savël Prokofjevič Dikój

Mezzosopran (+3)

Violeta Urmana

Marfa Ignatěvna Kabanová

Tenor (+1)

John Daszak

Tichon Ivanyč Kabanov

Tenor (+2)

Pavel Černoch

Boris Grigorjevič

Sopran

Corinne Winters

Káťa Kabanová

Tenor

James Ley

Váňa Kudrjaš

Baryton (+3)

Thomas Mole

Kuligin

Mezzosopran (+2)

Ekaterine Buachidze

Gláša

Sopran (+2)

Elene Gvritishvili

Fekluša

Orchestra

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Video designer

Video designer (+1)

Kamil Polak

Nationaltheater Munich

Dirigent

Marc Albrecht

Chorus

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

Körledare

Körledare (+1)

Franz Obermair

Samuel Stopford

Ein Mann

Natalie Lewis

Eine Frau

Mezzosopran (+4)

Emily Sierra

Varvara

Ena Pongrac

Mezzosopran (+1)

Rachel Wilson

In Leoš Janáček’s opera, Kát’a Kabanová, the eponymous heroine is ensnared at the heart of an ominous mesh of relations. Her domineering mother-in-law, Kabanicha, oppresses and controls her son Tichon, whose marriage to Kát’a suffers massively from heteronomy. Because Kát’a finds no fulfilment in this family, she flees and fulfils her unsatisfied erotic desires in an affair with Boris. As composer and librettist, Janáček bundles the plot of the literary template, Alexander N. Ostrovsky’s drama, The Storm. The libretto largely dispenses with the portrayal of the external social circumstances, from whence Kát’a’s essence and choices are decisively determined. Instead, Janáček traces the development of the title character in a psychological-sensitive musical language. Kát’a’s feelings of guilt increase continuously until they discharge into a public confession as an emotional storm. The turbulent and in places fanciful music opens the space for passages of lyrical grace and allows us to experience the essence of the characters. In Kát’a, director Krzysztof Warlikowski sees an outsider, who is denied a life in harmony with her desires, and at the end prefers death over lies. The destructive power of religion behind it all is not only found in a small Russian town on the banks of the Volga in the 1860s, where the libretto places the plot, but rather can also be seen everywhere all over the world.

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