Admin

Stage director

Stage director (+4)

Calixto Bieito

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Aída-Leonor Guardia Beier

Costume designer

Eva Butzkies

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+1)

Lukáš Kozubík

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+2)

Beno Blachut

Conductor

Conductor (+3)

Robert Jindra

National Theatre Prague

Národní divadlo (National Theatre)

Bass (+3)

Jiří Sulženko

Savel Prokofjevic Dikoj

Tenor

Peter Berger

Boris Grigorjevic

Soprano (+2)

Eva Urbanová

Marfa Ignatevna Kabanova

Tenor (+6)

Jaroslav Březina

Tichon Ivanyc Kabanov

Alžběta Poláčková

Katya

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir

Varvara

Tenor (+2)

Josef Moravec

Vana Kudrjas

Bass-baritone (+3)

Miloš Horák

Kuligin

Kateřina Jalovcová

Glasa

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Jana Horáková Levicová

Feklusa

Soprano (+3)

Anna Moriová

Zena

Lenka Kučerová

Petr Dvořák

A bystander

Vyacheslav Korsak

Orchestra

Prague National Opera Orchestra

Chorus

Prague National Theatre Chorus

lthough many in his homeland still consider Leoš Janáček a difficult modernist, all over the world he has long been esteemed as a truly singular classical genius. His opera Katya Kabanova, based on A. N. Ostrovsky’s drama The Storm, deeply impresses every perceptive viewer due to its immense emotionality, attesting to Janáček’s extraordinary empathy. The title heroine, with her dreamy, amorous and heart-wrenching states of mind, is placed in stark contrast with the savage behaviour of those around her. The desperate Katya ultimately finds the solution to her inner conflict between desire and social obligation in the water of the river Volga. The National Theatre in Prague first performed Janáček’s opera a year after its world premiere in Brno in November 1921.

More than a decade since our most recent adaptation, we prepared a new Katya Kabanova production staged by the Spanish director Calixto Bieito, famous for his unorthodox interpretations of classic operas, who has already explored Janáček’s operatic world in his remarkable accounts of Jenůfa in Stuttgart and From the House of the Dead in Nuremberg.

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