Organization

Conductor

Simon Rattle

Singer

Soprano

Amanda Majeski

Katya

Tenor

Simon O'Neill

Boris Grigorjevic

Mezzo-soprano

Magdalena Kožená

Varvara

Contralto

Katarina Dalayman

Marfa Ignatevna Kabanova

Ladislav Elgr

Vana Kudrjas

Andrew Staples

Tichon Ivanyc Kabanov

Baritone

Lukáš Zeman

Kuligin

Bass

John Tomlinson

Savel Prokofjevic Dikoj

Pavlo Hunka

Claire Barnett-Jones

Glasa

Feklusa

London Symphony Orchestra

Others

London Symphony Chorus

Orchestra

Barbican Centre

Czech

Storms of Passion-Janáček’s Katya Kabanova

London

United Kingdom

Kát'a Kabanová

Public

Katya Kabanova

English

Approved

Storms of Passion-Janáček’s Katya Kabanova: Kát'a Kabanová Janáček

Janáček’s opera of loneliness, love, and the price of passion, in a dramatic concert performance from Sir Simon Rattle and a hand-picked cast.

Katya is young, sensitive and desperate for love. But trapped in a remote country village with a bored husband and his snobbish family, she has no way out, until a summer thunderstorm changes everything. Uncompromisingly honest, and pulsing with intensely human emotion, Katya Kabanova is opera for grown-ups, written in music that cuts straight to the chase. The LSO’s concert stagings of classic operas always make headlines: this will be one to remember.  

Tonight’s cast includes the superb Kiwi tenor Simon O’Neill and living legend Sir John Tomlinson. Katya is one of Amanda Majewski’s signature roles – she won’t hold back tonight.  

‘Majeski gives such heartfelt commitment to the role of Katya that one worries how she can come back down from the emotional peaks and precipices that she scales.’ – Opera Today

Storms of Passion-Janáček’s Katya Kabanova by Janáček, From (2023/2023), Conductor Simon Rattle, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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