Katya Kabanova
Katya Kabanova
Katya Kabanova
Katya Kabanova
Katya Kabanova
Katya Kabanova
National Theatre Orchestra

Katya Kabanova

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Dauer
125 min
Regie
Calixto Bieito
Uraufführung
10. 1. 2021
Autor*in
Leoš Janáček
Besetzung

Jiří Sulženko / František Zahradníček, Peter Berger, Eva Urbanová / Yvona Škvárová, Jaroslav Březina / Štefan Margita, Alžběta Poláčková / Petra Alvarez Šimková, Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir / Alena Kropáčková, Josef Moravec / Martin Šrejma, Miloš Horák / Jiří Hájek, Kateřina Jalovcová / Sylva Čmugrová, Jana Horáková Levicová / Lenka Šmídová

Although 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 the National theatre most recent adaptation, a new production is being prepared, under the baton of the British conductor Christopher Ward, whom the National Theatre audience know from performances of Britten’s Billy Budd and Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges, and the Spanish stage director Calixto Bieito, famous for his unorthodox interpretations of classic operas, with his productions currently mainly staged in Germany.

Auftretende Künstler*innen

National Theatre Chorus
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