With music inspired by the traditional folk melodies of his native Moravia, Janáček’s score movingly captures Jenůfa’s progression from hope to despair to eventual radiant happiness, while her stepmother, the Kostelnička, is one of opera’s most complex maternal figures. Two courageous women struggle for fulfilment against the backdrop of a claustrophobic rural community. Guth’s staging of the affirmation of hope in Janacek’s conclusion is a gorgeously heart-warmingcoup de théâtre.Award-winning director Claus Guth’s acclaimed production of Jenůfa is a striking representation of an oppressed society ‘infused with heart-warming humanity’ Evening Standard First performed in Brno in 1904, It took a long time to. This Lithuanian soprano holds the entire dramatic edifice together with a remarkable purity and evenness of tone, and an emotional restraint which makes the pathos of her plight all the more absorbing. Cathartic, deeply moving, tragic yet ultimately hopeful, Janáek’s Jenfa is one of the most powerful operas of the early 20th century. The production is directed by Claus Guth, his first foray into. Judging by the DVD/Blu-ray recording now issued by Opus Arte, and minor caveats apart, it was worth the wait. In the great Finnish soprano Karita Mattila, who 20 years ago memorably incarnated Jenufa, we get a massively convincing Kostelnicka she has wonderful warmth and power, serving as the ideal foil to Asmik Grigorian’s sound in the title role. Delayed by the Covid pandemic, the Royal Opera House’s first new production of Janáek’s Jenfa in two decades eventually made it to the stage in September 2021.
Yet the few visual surprises he allows are so breathtaking, and the performances of the principals so convincing, that we are carried irresistibly along.Īlbanian tenor Saimir Pirgu’s mellow-toned, swaggering Steva perfectly fits the bill, but tenor Nicky Spence’s Laca upstages him as the score demands, with a piteous desperation that cries to the heavens. Guth keeps the stage bare – and under crepuscular lighting – from start to finish.
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Yes, this is quintessential Janacek territory, full of desperate desires and pent-up emotions, with violence always lurking below the surface, and with the orchestra magnifying those emotions to create a wild and lurid landscape. But she’s not clever enough to properly hide the body, which surfaces next spring when the winter ice melts… Her mother forces her to give birth in secret to protect her daughter’s reputation she gives her a sleeping drug and murders the child. But Jenufa is expecting Steva’s child, and is desperate to avert scandal in this tightly conventional community by marrying him. Leeds Grand Theatre, touring until 2 April 2022. Jenufa’s foster-mother, known as the Kostelnicka (a female sacristan), wants to protect her from the effects of Steva’s drunkenness. Karita Mattila as Kostelnicka in Royal Operas new Jenufa: charismatic. The plot concerns Steva, a dissolute young mill-owner whom all the girls fancy, and his fiancée Jenufa, whom his half-brother Laca also loves. But Guth has a plan, which he reveals only gradually. There is no sense of time or place the figures on stage might be in some mad scientist’s laboratory. We are asked to accept this arid piece of Teutonic stylisation as taking place in a remote Moravian village 100 years ago. In what looks like a white-walled industrial sweat-shop, rows of identically-clad female automata are peeling potatoes while the dysfunctional family whom the story is about bicker centre-stage. It comes as London’s famous opera house is just one of the music institutions to. The Royal Opera House is streaming a weekly programme of online shows and masterclasses, following the coronavirus outbreak. However, this visual spectacle is not immediately apparent. As well as streaming opera and ballet performances, the iconic London venue is offering behind-the-scenes looks behind its closed doors. - from Bernard Haitink, Orchestra & Chorus Of Royal Opera House Covent Garden - Jenufa/ Bernard Haitink (2003) Aida. It has now opened, and it makes a stunning evening. Listen to Jancek: Jenufa by Anja Silja, Bernard Haitink, Jerry Hadley, Karita Mattila & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on Apple Music. A scene from the Royal Opera House’s production of Jenufa (Ivor Kerslake)Ĭlaus Guth’s Royal Opera production of Janacek’s Jenufa was scheduled to open in March 2020, but was aborted at the last moment by Covid.
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