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Mise en scène

Mise en scène (+4)

Calixto Bieito

Décors

Décors (+1)

Aída-Leonor Guardia Beier

Costumes

Eva Butzkies

Chef de chœur

Chef de chœur (+1)

Lukáš Kozubík

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+2)

Beno Blachut

Direction d'orchestre

Direction d'orchestre (+3)

Robert Jindra

National Theatre Prague

Národní divadlo (National Theatre)

Basse (+3)

Jiří Sulženko

Savel Dikoj

Ténor

Peter Berger

Boris Grigorjevic

Soprano (+2)

Eva Urbanová

Marfa Kabanová

Ténor (+6)

Jaroslav Březina

Tichon Kabanov

Alžběta Poláčková

Katia

Mezzo-soprano (+3)

Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir

Varvara

Ténor (+2)

Josef Moravec

Vana Kudrjas

Baryton-basse (+3)

Miloš Horák

Kuligin

Kateřina Jalovcová

Glasa

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Jana Horáková Levicová

Feklusa

Soprano (+3)

Anna Moriová

Zena

Lenka Kučerová

Petr Dvořák

Un spectateur

Vyacheslav Korsak

Orchestra

Ópera Checa de Praga

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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