Admin

Regisseur

Regisseur (+4)

Calixto Bieito

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Aída-Leonor Guardia Beier

Kostuum ontwerper

Eva Butzkies

Koor meester

Koor meester (+1)

Lukáš Kozubík

Dramaturg

Dramaturg (+2)

Beno Blachut

Dirigent

Dirigent (+3)

Robert Jindra

National Theatre Prague

Národní divadlo (National Theatre)

Bas (+3)

Jiří Sulženko

Savël Prokofjevič Dikój

Tenor

Peter Berger

Boris Grigorjevič

Sopraan (+2)

Eva Urbanová

Marfa Ignatěvna Kabanová

Tenor (+6)

Jaroslav Březina

Tichon Ivanyč Kabanov

Alžběta Poláčková

Káťa Kabanová

Mezzosopraan (+3)

Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir

Varvara

Tenor (+2)

Josef Moravec

Váňa Kudrjaš

Bas-bariton (+3)

Miloš Horák

Kuligin

Kateřina Jalovcová

Gláša

Mezzosopraan (+2)

Jana Horáková Levicová

Fekluša

Sopraan (+3)

Anna Moriová

Žena

Lenka Kučerová

Petr Dvořák

Pozdní chodec

Vyacheslav Korsak

Orchestra

Het Nationale Theater

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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