Organization

Singer

Bass

Jiří Sulženko

Savel Prokofjevic Dikoj

František Zahradníček

Contralto

Eva Urbanová

Marfa Ignatevna Kabanova

Yvona Škvárová

Tenor

Jaroslav Březina

Tichon Ivanyc Kabanov

Stefan Margita

Soprano

Alžběta Poláčková

Katya

Petra Šimková

Josef Moravec

Vana Kudrjas

Martin Šrejma

Mezzo-soprano

Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir

Varvara

Alena Grach

Baritone

Miloš Horák

Kuligin

Jiří Hájek

Kateřina Jalovcová

Glasa

Sylva Čmugrová

Jana Horáková Levicová

Feklusa

Lenka Šmídová

Stage director

Calixto Bieito

Conductor

Jaroslav Kyzlink

Lighting designer

Michael Bauer

Costume designer

Eva Butzkies

Set designer

Aída-Leonor Guardia Beier

Dramaturge

Beno Blachut

Chorus master

Jan Bubak

Magnus Vigilius

Boris Grigorjevic

National Theatre Prague

Others

Prague National Theatre Chorus

Orchestra

Ópera Checa de Praga

Czech

Kát'a Kabanová -  (Katya Kabanova)

Prague

Czech Republic

Národní divadlo (National Theatre)

Kát'a Kabanová Janáček

Public

Katya Kabanova

English

Approved

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 our most recent adaptation, we are now preparing a new Katya Kabanova production, to be conducted by Jaroslav Kyzlink, the Music Director of the National Theatre Opera, and 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.

Katya Kabanova by Janáček, From (2022/2022), Directed by Calixto Bieito,, Conductor Jaroslav Kyzlink, Národní divadlo (National Theatre), Prague, Czech Republic

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