Opera Leos Janacek "Katya Kabanova" (opera in three acts) Mikhailovsky Classical Ballet and Opera Theatre (established 1833)
Schedule for Leos Janacek "Katya Kabanova" (opera in three acts) 2022
Composer: Leos Janacek Musical Director: Peter Feranec
Orchestra: Mikhailovsky Symphony Orchestra
opera in three acts music by Leos Janacek
Libretto: Leos Jancek after the play by Alexander
Ostrovsky The Storm Musical Director: Peter
Feranec Stage Director: Niels-Peter Rudolph Stage Designer: Volker
Hintermeier Costumes Designer: Susanne Bьhler Costumes Engineer: Alla
Marusina Principal Chorus Master: Vladimir Stolpovskikh Chorus Masters:
Sergey Tsyplyonkov, Alexey Dmitriyev Director: Yulia Prokhorova Assistant
Conductor: Mikhail Leontyev Rehearsal Conductor: Andrey
Velikanov Assistant Director: Vyacheslav Kalyuzhny Czech Language
Consultants: Elena Kolomiytseva Principal Pianists: Marc Veiner, Maria
Kopyseva Stage Manager: Olga Kokh Assistant to Stage Manager: Daria
Panteleyeva
Premiere at the Mikhailovsky Theatre: December 16,
2010
Performed in Czech (the performance will have synchronised
Russian supertitles)
The first opera premiere of the
178th season is Kat’a Kabanova, written
by a most interesting representative of the Czech music Leos
Janacek, a realist composer, who always strove to convey the truth
of life in his compositions.
The opera is largely based
on The Storm, a play by the renowned Russian playwright
Alexander Ostrovsky. The libretto was written by the composer, who used the
translation of the play by Vincenc Cervinka. Janacek abridged the
everyday and genre components but developed the lyric one; he kept the main
lines of action and revealed the depth of Katerina’s drama. Janacek’s
music is full-blooded; it’s the movement towards life and light. It’s
healthy, boiling hot, spirited and arresting. One can see Janacek’s interest
in people’s speech in it: he used the melodic elements borrowed
from the everyday colloquial intonations.
The opera is truthful and
highly emotional, though it doesn’t have direct relationship with Russian
folklore; it appears that the composer didn’t set the task
of expressing the local flavour.
On the whole, the opera
is an almost ideal combination of the beautiful music and drama,
hence, there’s something to be sung, acted, and invented. The
Mikhailovsky Opera has started rehearsing — we’re looking forward
to the premiere.
Schedule for Leos Janacek "Katya Kabanova" (opera in three acts) 2022
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