Thursday 9 June 2016

91 - Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová


A powerful dramatic work of infidelity and suicide in rural 19th century Russia... The sound world of Janacek's operas is very different of those of Italian, German, French and Russian opera. 

His is a distinct Czech voice. The speech patterns and folk music of his native Moravia were a constant inspiration for his operas. 

Here is Karita Mattila in Robert Carsen's production for the Teatro Real, Madrid in 2008.

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