KÁŤA KABANOVÁ

In the organizer's words:

Composer Leoš Janáček. Libretto by Leoš Janáček after the play "Thunderstorm" (Groza, 1859) by Alexander N. Ostrowski in the Czech translation by Vincenc Červinka.

Opera in three acts (1921)

In the Czech language. With German and English surtitles. New production.

In Leoš Janáček's opera Káťa Kabanová, the title heroine is caught in the middle of a sinister web of relationships: Her domineering mother-in-law Kabanicha oppresses and controls her son Tichon, whose marriage to Káťa suffers massively as a result of her domination. Because Káťa finds no fulfillment in this family, she takes refuge and her unsatisfied erotic desires in an affair with Boris.
As composer and librettist, Janáček bundles the plot of the literary model, Alexander N. Ostrowski's drama Gewitter: the libretto largely dispenses with the description of the external social circumstances that decisively determine Káťa's nature and decisions. Instead, Janáček traces the development of the title character in a psychologically sensitive musical language. Káťa'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 characters' innermost nature.
In Káťa, 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: Petr Popelka

Production: Krzysztof Warlikowski

Stage and costume: Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Light: Felice Ross

Video: Kamil Polak

Choreography: Claude Bardouil

Choir: Franz Obermair

Dramaturgy: Christian Longchamp, Lukas Leipfinger

Dikoj: Milan Siljanov

Boris: Pavel Černoch

Kabanicha: Violeta Urmana

Tichon: John Daszak

Káťa: Corinne Winters

Kudrjáš: James Ley

Varvara: Rachael Wilson

Kuligin: Tim Kuypers

Glaša: Ekaterine Buachidze

Fekluša: Elene Gvritishvili

A man: Samuel Stopford

A woman: Natalie Lewis

Bavarian State Orchestra

Bavarian State Opera Chorus

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