KÁŤA KABANOVÁ

In the organizer's words:

In Leoš Janáček's opera Kát'a Kabanová, the title heroine is caught in the middle of a disastrous web of relationships: Her domineering mother-in-law Kabanicha oppresses and controls her son Tichon, whose marriage to Kát'a suffers massively under her domination. Because Kát'a finds no fulfillment in this family, she takes refuge in an affair with Boris and her unsatisfied erotic desires.
As composer and librettist, Janáček combines the plot of the literary source, Alexander N. Ostrowski's drama Gewitter: the libretto largely dispenses with the description of the external social circumstances that decisively determine Kát'a's nature and decisions. Instead, Janáček traces the development of the title character in a psychologically sensitive musical language. Kát'a's feelings of guilt continue to increase until they are discharged in a public confession as an emotional thunderstorm. The stormy and at times exaggerated music opens up the space for passages of lyrical grace and allows us to experience the innermost nature of the characters.
In Kát'a, director Krzysztof Warlikowski sees an outsider who is denied a life in harmony with her desires and who ultimately prefers death to lies. The underlying destructive power of religion is not only to be found in a small Russian town on the Volga in the 1860s, where the libretto sets the action, but can be observed all over the world.

Cast:

• Musical direction Marc Albrecht
• Production : Krzysztof Warlikowski
• Stage and costume Małgorzata Szczęśniak
• Lighting Felice Ross
• Video Kamil Polak
• Choreography Claude Bardouil
• Choir Franz Obermair
• Dramaturgy Christian Longchamp Lukas Leipfinger

• Savjol Prokofjevič Dikoj Milan Siljanov
• Boris Grigorjevič Pavel Černoch
• Marfa Ignatěvna Kabanová (Kabanicha) Violeta Urmana
• Tichon Ivanyč Kabanov John Daszak
• Katěrina (Káťa) Corinne Winters
• Váňa Kudrjáš James Ley
• Varvara Emily Sierra
• Kuligin Thomas Mole
• Glaša Ekaterine Buachidze
• Fekluša Elene Gvritishvili
• A woman (from the people) Natalie Lewis
• Bavarian State Orchestra
• Bavarian State Opera Chorus

Price information:

Prices vary depending on seating category and performance date: 17.3.25: Prices M , € 193 /168 /142 /117 /90 /64 /16 /14 PREMIERE 21.3.25: Prices L , € 163 /142 /117 /91 /64 /39 /15 /11 24./27./30.3.25: Prices K , € 132 /115 /95 /74 /52 /30 /14 /10