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Káťa Kabanová


Káťa Kabanová (also known in various spellings including "Katia", "Katja", "Katya", and "Kabanowa") is an opera in three acts, with music by Leoš Janáček to a libretto by , based on "The Storm", a play by Alexander Ostrovsky. The opera was also largely inspired by Janáček's love for Kamila Stösslová. This is often considered his first "mature" opera , despite the fact that he was 67 when it was premiered. "Káťa Kabanová" is a clear
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Katarina Karnéus


won the Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 1995, which immediately launched an international career. The years following saw her appear as the page in "Salome" in Chicago, Varvara in "Káťa Kabanová" in New York, Dorabella at Glyndebourne, Rosina at the Opéra-Comique in Paris and Mercédès in "Carmen" at the Opéra Bastille. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera on January 2, 1999 singing Varvara in "Káťa Kabanová" and went on to sing there as Olga in "Eugene Onegin"
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Elisabeth Söderström


Anna Elisabeth Söderström (married name Olow; 7 May 192720 November 2009) was a Swedish soprano who performed both opera and song, and was known as a leading interpreter of the works of Janáček, Rachmaninov and Sibelius. She was particularly well known for her recordings of the lead soprano roles in the three Janáček operas "Jenůfa", "Káťa Kabanová", and "The Makropoulos Affair", all of which received "Gramophone" Awards. The "Gramophone" critic John Warrack described her portrayal of Káťa Kabanová as "
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Káťa Kabanová


complains to Varvara, the family's foster daughter, who rebukes him for retreating into drinking more than defending Káťa. In the house, Káťa tells Varvara of her happy childhood, and dreams of having a man who truly loves her. Tichon enters to say good-bye, as he is journeying to Kazan on business, for Kabanicha. Káťa asks to accompany him or for him not to go, but he insists. Káťa then asks him to make her swear an oath to speak to no strangers during his absence,
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Káťa Kabanová


Boris explains to Vána Kudrjás why he tolerates the abuse: his parents are dead, and to be able collect his inheritance, he must respect his uncle no matter what his uncle says to him. Boris also tells Vána Kudrjás that he is secretly in love with Káťa, the young wife of Tichon. Káťa appears and Kabanicha reproaches her son Tichon – Kata's husband – for his inattentiveness. Tichon and Káťa try to calm her down, but Kabanicha will have none of it, telling Tichon that he spoils Káťa. Tichon
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Káťa Kabanová


which puzzles Tichon. Kabanicha announces that Tichon must go, but not before instructing Káťa how to behave in his absence. Tichon dutifully says that Káťa must treat Kabanicha like her own mother and always act properly. He bows to Kabanicha and kisses her and Kát'a before he departs. The women are working on embroidery. Kabanicha criticizes Káťa for not appearing more sorrowful at Tichon's absence. After Kabanicha leaves, Varvara shows Káťa the key to the far part of the garden. Varvara intends to meet Vána, her lover, there
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Soňa Červená


. In 1981 she sang in the world premiere of Antonio Bibalo's "Ghosts" at the Kiel Opera House. In 1983 she gave an acclaimed portrayal of Marfa Ignatevna Kabanová in Leoš Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" at La Monnaie. In 2004, Červená was honored with a Thalia Award. She has been starring as Emilia Marty in the Janáček opera "The Makropulos Case" (based on the Karel Čapek play), directed by Robert Wilson, at the National Theatre in Prague since the production's debut in November 2010
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assume initially that this is what upsets Káťa. However, she confesses to Tichon in front of everyone her assignation with Boris during her husband's absence. Then she runs out into the storm. Evening approaches after the storm has ended. Tichon and a search party are looking for Káťa. At first among the party, Varvara and Vána then decide to leave the village for Moscow and start a new life. They leave, and as the searchers continue, Káťa appears. She knows that her confession has dishonoured her and humiliated
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Káťa Kabanová


. She hints at the same suggestion for Káťa, and puts the key in her hand. Káťa is hesitant, but then surrenders to fate and will meet Boris. She steps outside as evening comes on. Kabanicha reappears with Dikoj, who is drunk and complaining that people take advantage of his softhearted nature. However, Kabanicha chastises him. Vána Kudrjás is waiting for Varvara in the garden. Boris then unexpectedly appears, after receiving a message to go there. Varvara arrives, and she and Vána go for a walk by
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Káťa Kabanová


the river. Káťa then appears, and Boris declares his love for her. She is at first worried about social ruin, but finally she reciprocates, confessing her secret feelings for him. They embrace and themselves leave for a walk. Vána and Varvara return, as she explains her precautions in case Kabanicha suddenly appears. Káťa and Boris are heard in wordless, ecstatic duet as Vána and Varvara say that it is time to return home. Vána Kudrjás and Kuligin are strolling near the river when an approaching storm causes them to
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Káťa Kabanová


take shelter in a ruined building. Other people join them, including Dikoj. Vána tries to calm Dikoj with scientific explanations about a new invention, the lightning rod. However, this only angers Dikoj, who insists that lightning is not caused by electricity but is the punishment from God. The rain dies down, and people start to leave the shelter. Vána meets Boris and Varvara. Varvara says that Tichon has returned, and Káťa is very agitated. Kabanicha arrives with Tichon and Káťa. The storm returns, and people
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Patricia Racette


; Cio-Cio San in "Madama Butterfly"; Alice Ford in "Falstaff"; Liù in "Turandot"; Desdemona in "Otello"; and Káťa in "Káťa Kabanová". She performed in several world premieres, including the title role in Tobias Picker's "Emmeline" (1996), and as Leslie Crosby in Paul Moravec's "The Letter" (2009) at the Santa Fe Opera. She appeared in the premiere of Picker's "An American Tragedy" (2005) at the Met
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Boris. She feels tormented and wants to meet Boris one more time. Boris appears and sees her, and the two embrace. Boris says that his uncle is sending him away to another town, but asks her what will become of her. As her sanity deteriorates, she first begs him to be allowed to accompany him, then insists that she could not and bids him farewell; he leaves in sorrow. After thinking of how nature will continue to flourish over her grave, Káťa throws herself into the river. Kuligin
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Alexander Ostrovsky


; in the end of 1867, a daughter, Maria. On 12 February 1869, Ostrovsky and Vasilyeva married. Several of Ostrovsky's plays have been turned into operas. The play "The Storm" (Groza) was the inspiration behind Leoš Janáček's opera "Káťa Kabanová". The most notable Russian opera based on an Ostrovsky play is Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Snow Maiden" ("Snegurochka"). Tchaikovsky also wrote incidental music for this play. Ostrovsky is known outside of Russian-speaking countries
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Peter Hoare (tenor)


. For the ENO, he sang Sharikov in Alexander Raskatov's "A Dog's Heart". As part of the First World War commemorations, Hoare premiered Torsten Rasch's "A Foreign Field", based on English and German war poetry. Hoare has recorded several operas, including "Lessons in Love and Violence", "Káťa Kabanová" and James MacMillan's "The Sacrifice". He has also recorded Vaughan Williams' "Fantasia on Christmas Carols" and Delius' "A Song of the High Hills".
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The Cunning Little Vixen


is Janáček's lightest opera, and, despite the titular vixen's death at the end of the work, it stands in contrast to the often brutally serious nature of operas such as "Jenůfa" and "Káťa Kabanová". In "The Cunning Little Vixen", the composer moved away from the more conversational style of previous and subsequent operas in favor of a more folk-like style, and wove into its fabric some of his most experimental opera concepts (ballet, mime, and orchestral interludes). Janáček based
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Volker Schlöndorff


first husband. Schlöndorff then completed the TV movie "Übernachtung in Tirol" in 1974, an adaptation of the Henry James short story "Les raisons de Georgina" for German TV and directed his first opera in Frankfurt, a production of Leoš Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" in 1974. Schlöndorff (and the New German Cinema movement as a whole) had his first financial hit film with "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" in 1975. Based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize-winning German author
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Leoš Janáček


's "Tale of Tsar Berendei" inspired him to write the "Fairy Tale for Cello and Piano". He composed the rhapsody "Taras Bulba" (1918) to Gogol's short story, and five years later, in 1923, completed his first string quartet, inspired by Tolstoy's "Kreutzer Sonata". Two of his later operas were based on Russian themes: "Káťa Kabanová", composed in 1921 to Alexander Ostrovsky's play, "The Storm": and his last work, "From the House
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Charles Mackerras


outside Czechoslovakia, where Mackerras himself judged his work with Janáček as his single most important legacy to music. In 1951, he conducted the British premiere of "Káťa Kabanová". He was also a noted authority on Mozart's operas and those of Sir Arthur Sullivan. His ballet with John Cranko, "Pineapple Poll", is an arrangement of Sullivan music with a story based on one of W. S. Gilbert's "Bab Ballads". The piece premiered in 1951, soon after the expiration of copyright on Sullivan's music
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Albert Rosen


"Carmen" (Bizet), "Tosca" and "Madama Butterfly" (Puccini), "Il trovatore" and "Don Carlos" (Verdi), "Lohengrin" (Wagner), "Lucrezia Borgia" (Donizetti), "Otello" and "L'italiana in Algeri" (Rossini), "Káťa Kabanová" (Janáček), "La Wally" (Catalani), "The Bartered Bride" (Smetana), and "Salome" (Richard Strauss), He also conducted unusual works such
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Jaroslava Maxová


", Mascagni‘s Lola in "Cavalleria rusticana", Martinů’s Filoména in "Alexander Twice", Gluck’s Orpheus in "Orpheus and Eurydice", Dvořák’s Witch in "Rusalka" and Kate in "The Devil and Kate", Smetana’s Radmila in "Libuše" and Háta in "The Bartered Bride", Handel’s Ulysses in "Deidamia", Purcell’s Witch in "Dido and Aeneas", Britten’s Miss Jessel in "The Turn of the Screw", Janáček’s Varvara in "Káťa Kabanová
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Gwyneth Jones (soprano)


in "L'incoronazione di Poppea"), Hanna Glawari (in "The Merry Widow") and Norma. Starting from the 1990s, other than the aforementioned parts, she went on to sing Widow Begbick ("Mahagonny"), Ortrud (in "Lohengrin"), the Woman in Arnold Schoenberg's "Erwartung", the Kostelnicka (in "Jenůfa"), the Kabanicha (in "Káťa Kabanová"), the Woman in Poulenc's "La voix humaine", Ruth (in "The Pirates of
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Amy Shuard


, Buenos Aires and San Francisco. Her notable roles included the title roles in "Káťa Kabanová" (in the 1951 United Kingdom premiere), "Jenůfa" (in the 1956 UK premiere), "Carmen", "Tosca", "Turandot", "Elektra", "Madama Butterfly" and "Aida"; as well as Santuzza in "Cavalleria rusticana", Eboli in "Don Carlos", Tatyana in "Eugene Onegin", Magda Sorel in "The Consul", Lady Macbeth (in
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Richard Armstrong (conductor)


"Salome", "Fidelio", "Mary Stuart", "Káťa Kabanová", "Peter Grimes", "Tristan und Isolde", "La forza del destino", "The Jacobin", "La traviata", "Il trovatore", the world première of James MacMillan's "Inês de Castro" (a revival of which was broadcast by BBC television), "The Cunning Little Vixen", "Turandot", "Hansel and Gretel", "La bohème", "The Queen
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Gwendolyn Jones


"Das Rheingold", Fyodor in "Boris Godunov", Geneviève in "Pelléas et Mélisande", Glasha in "Káťa Kabanová", Isaura in "Tancredi", Kate Pinkerton in "Madama Butterfly", Laura in "Luisa Miller", Mirinda in "Ormindo", the Second Lady in "The Magic Flute", Sextus in "Giulio Cesare", Siebel in "Faust", Siegrune in "Die Walküre", the Voice From Above in "Die Frau ohne Schatten", and Wowkle in "
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Kathryn Day


, Azucenna in "Il trovatore" (1997), and Ulrica in "Un ballo in maschera" (2002). In 1992 she was the soprano soloist in Rossini's "Petite messe solennelle" with the Philadelphia Singers. She returned to the OTSL as Kabanicha in "Káťa Kabanová" (1998) and Marcellina in "The Marriage of Figaro" (1999). In 1999 she appeared at the Opéra de Montréal as Herodias in Richard Strauss' "Salome" and as Madelon in "Andrea Chénier" at the
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Eilene Hannan


"Fidelio"; Mélisande in Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande"; Blanche in Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites"; the title roles in Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová", "Jenůfa" and "The Cunning Little Vixen"; the Marschallin in Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier"; Princess Eboli in Verdi's "Don Carlos"; Pat Nixon in Adams' "Nixon in China"; Wagner's Sieglinde and Venus; Salome in Massenet's "Hérodiade"; and Monteverdi's Poppea. Eilene Hannan
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Judith Forst


in "La forza del destino", Hänsel in "Hänsel und Gretel", Flora in "La traviata", Giulietta in "Les contes d'Hoffman", Donna Elvira in "Don Giovanni", Mère Marie in Poulenc's "Dialogues of the Carmelites", Kabanicha in Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová", Adelaide in "Arabella", The Witch in "Hänsel und Gretel", and Kostelnicka in "Jenůfa". In 1991, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2001, she
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Andrew Shore


Inigo Gomez in "L'Heure espagnole" in 2007 and 2009. For Glyndebourne he has played Baron Douphol in "La traviata" (1988), the Mayor in "Jenůfa" (1990), Mr Gedge in "Albert Herring" (1990), Falstaff (1990), Don Alfonso in "Così fan tutte" (1991), Dr Kolenaty in "The Makropulos Case" (1995 and 1997), Dikój in "Káťa Kabanová" (1998), Bartolo in "Le nozze di Figaro" (2000
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Libuše Márová


in Plzeň as Azucena in Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore". In 1969 Márová was appointed to the Prague National Theatre where she quickly became one of the theatre's most important artists. On stage she excelled in the dramatic Czech repertoire, portraying such roles as Donna Isabella in "The Bride of Messina", Fanny in "The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century", Martinka in "The Kiss", Varvara in "Káťa Kabanová", Vlasta in "Šárka", and the
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Loretta Di Franco


". She continued to appear annually at the Met for the next 30 years, performing both leading and supporting roles. Some of the parts she performed at the Met included Annina in "La traviata", both the Aunt and Barena in Janáček's "Jenůfa", Barbarina and Marcellina in "The Marriage of Figaro", Berta in "The Barber of Seville", Countess Ceprano in "Rigoletto", the Dew Fairy and the Sandman in "Hansel and Gretel", Feklusa in "Káťa Kabanová", the
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Bernard Deletré


, EMI France, Adda, Opus 111, Naxos, Harmonia Mundi labels ... He sings in both in the field of Baroque music and in the traditional opera repertoire: Giorgio in Bellini's "I puritani" in Nantes, Schlemil in Offenbach's "The Tales of Hoffmann" (Oeser version) in Geneva directed by Olivier Py, Dikoï in Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" in Geneva, Bartolo in Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" in Tourcoing and Orléans, the priest in Janáček's "The Cunning Little Vixen
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Anda-Louise Bogza


day. Among the roles which she has portrayed in Prague are Abigaille in "Nabucco", Amelia in "Un ballo in maschera", Donna Anna in "Don Giovanni", Desdemona in "Otello", Elisabetta in "Don Carlo", Giorgetta in "Il Tabarro" Katerina in "Káťa Kabanová", Leonora in "Il Trovatore", Lisa in "Pique Dame", Minnie in "La Fanciulla del West", Sina in Hans Krása's "Verlobung im Traum", and the title roles
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Brandon Jovanovich


-Nantes Opéra; Boris in Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" at the Lyric Opera of Chicago; Steva in Janáček's "Jenufa" at the Bayrische Staatsoper and Angers-Nantes Opéra; the title role in Britten's "Peter Grimes" with Teatro di San Carlo in Napoli; Pollione in Bellini's "Norma" at Teatro Verdi (Trieste) and Angers-Nantes Opéra; the Earl of Essex in Britten's "Gloriana" at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Des Grieux in Puccini's "Manon Lescaut"
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Charles Mackerras


principal guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic. With the Royal Opera, he conducted productions of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette" and Handel's "Semele". Mackerras also had a long association with the Metropolitan Opera, where he conducted "The Makropulos Case", "Káťa Kabanová", "Le prophète", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "+Billy Budd", "Hansel and Gretel" and "The Magic Flute". In August 2008, Mackerras was announced as the new Honorary President of the Edinburgh
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English National Opera


David Blake, Robin Holloway, Julian Anderson and Stephen Oliver. British stage premieres include operas by Verdi ("Simon Boccanegra", 1948), Janáček ("Káťa Kabanová", 1951), Stravinsky ("Oedipus rex", 1960), Prokofiev ("War and Peace", 1972) and Philip Glass ("Akhnaten", 1985, among others). From the beginning, the company interspersed serious opera with lighter works. In the early years the ""Irish Ring"" ("The Bohemian
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Patricia Racette


frequently, portraying Violetta (1997), Blanche de la Force (1999), Tatyana in "Eugene Onegin" (2002), the title role in "Káťa Kabanová" (2003), Amelia Grimaldi in "Simon Boccanegra" (2004), and Liù in "Turandot" (2005). She most recently returned to the house to portray the role of Leslie Crosby in the premiere of Paul Moravec's "The Letter" in 2009. In 1998 Racette was the recipient of the coveted Richard Tucker Award which
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Chester Ludgin


"La Gioconda" (with Leyla Gencer), Baron Jaroslav Prus in "The Makropoulos Case", Boris Timofeyevich Ismailov in "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" (opposite Anja Silja), Dikoy in "Káťa Kabanová" (with Elisabeth Söderström in the title role), Don Fernando in "Fidelio" (with Birgit Nilsson as Leonore), Friedrich von Telramund in "Lohengrin" (with Hildegard Hillebrecht as Elsa), Fritz Kothner in "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" (with Claramae Turner as Eva), the Grand
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Helga Dernesch


, the Marschallin (1971), Brünnhilde, Isolde, Ariadne, and Cassandra. She has also appeared in most of the world's other great opera houses, including Zürich, Amsterdam, Glyndebourne, London, Paris, San Francisco, New York and Chicago in such roles as Leonore, Sieglinde and Brünnhilde in "Die Walküre", Isolde, The Dyer's Wife in "Die Frau ohne Schatten", Clytemnestra in "Elektra", Kabanicha in "Káťa Kabanová", The Countess in "Pique Dame", and
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Lothar Koenigs


" (GMD) at the Osnabrück Theatre. His freelance work since his Osnabrück tenure has included engagements at the Opéra National de Lyon of "Wozzeck" (2003), a Janáček cycle of "Jenufa", "Káťa Kabanová" and "The Makropulos Affair" (2004), and "Lohengrin" (2006). Koenigs first conducted the orchestra of Welsh National Opera (WNO) in January 2005. He subsequently appeared as a guest conductor in WNO productions of "Salome" and "Khovanshchina". In July
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Mariusz Kwiecień


Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, he made his Met debut in 1999 as Kuligin in Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová". By 2003 he was singing leading baritone roles there including Marcello in "La bohème" (2003), Silvio in "Pagliacci" (2004), Count Almaviva in "The Marriage of Figaro" (2005), Guglielmo in "Così fan tutte" (2005), Dr. Malatesta in "Don Pasquale" (2006), and Enrico in "Lucia di Lammermoor" (2007). Kwiecień
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Naděžda Kniplová


"The Flying Dutchman", and the title roles in "Káťa Kabanová", "Šárka", "Tosca", and "Turandot". While committed to the PNT, Kniplová was also highly active as a guest artist at opera stages around the world. In 1965 she appeared at the Berlin State Opera and traveled with that house for performances in Tokyo. In 1966 gave lauded performances at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Hamburg State Opera, the latter of which she returned for several more
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Sally Burgess


Kabanicha in "Káťa Kabanová", Ottavia in "L'incoronazione di Poppea", Delilah in "Samson and Delilah", and Herodias in "Salome". Burgess appears on many recordings including several with Chandos Records (Judith in "Bluebeard's Castle" Herodias in "Salome", Florence Pike in "Albert Herring", and the Sorceress "Dido and Aeneas"); Paul McCartney's "Liverpool Oratorio", and three jazz albums. She made her opera directing debut in 2009 with Mozart's "Così fan tutte
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Günter Krämer


(1997) and Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" (1998). Krämer's opera productions include Korngold's "Die tote Stadt" (1986) and Schreker's "Die Gezeichneten" (1987, both at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" (1986, Deutsche Oper Berlin), Weber's "Der Freischütz" (1989, Komische Oper Berlin), Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (1992/93, Hamburg), Verdi's "La traviata" (1993, Munich Opera
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Kamila Stösslová


note by 24 July 1917. Despite her ambivalence to his feelings for her, Janáček was inspired by her to create the lead characters of three of his operas; Káťa in "Katya Kabanová", the vixen in "The Cunning Little Vixen" and Emilia Marty in "The Makropulos Affair". Other works that were inspired by his passion include "The Diary of One Who Disappeared", the "Glagolitic Mass", his "Sinfonietta" and the "String Quartet No. 2" (subtitled "Intimate Letters"
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Káťa Kabanová


the opera. "Note": The name of the opera and the main character is usually transliterated in English as "Káta", "Kata" or "Katya" because of the Czech diacritics. Vána Kudrjás admires the view of the Volga River, which amuses the more literal-minded housekeeper of the adjoining Kabanov estate. Two men approach, Dikoj and his nephew, Boris Grigorjevic, where Dikoj is berating Boris. Dikoj learns that Kabanicha, the Kabanov family matriarch, is not at home. Dikoj leaves, and
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Leoš Janáček


"Jenůfa", which was premiered in 1904 in Brno. The success of "Jenůfa" (often called the "Moravian national opera") at Prague in 1916 gave Janáček access to the world's great opera stages. Janáček's later works are his most celebrated. They include operas such as "Káťa Kabanová" and "The Cunning Little Vixen", the Sinfonietta, the "Glagolitic Mass", the rhapsody "Taras Bulba", two string quartets, and other chamber works. Along with Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich
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Hermin Esser


he worked with Walter Felsenstein. When the Berlin Wall was built, he moved to the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden. His broad repertoire included Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", Radames in Verdi's "Aida", Rodolfo in Puccini's "La Bohème", operas by Janáček ("Jenůfa", "Káťa Kabanová" and "Aus einem Totenhaus"), Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" and Aribert Reimann's "Lear". He focused on stage works by Richard Wagner, which he also performed as a guest internationally
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Jiří Bělohlávek


Jenůfa", "Tristan und Isolde" and "Rusalka" at Glyndebourne. He made his Metropolitan Opera (Met) debut on 17 December 2004 conducting "Káťa Kabanová", with Karita Mattila in the title role. He returned to the Met in January and February 2007 for "Jenůfa" and again in February and March 2009 for "Eugene Onegin" and "Rusalka". Bělohlávek first guest-conducted the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (RPhO) in 1994. In April 2012, the RPhO announced the appointment of Bělohlávek as
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Guy de Mey


Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Nantes Opera; Berg's "Lulu" and Janáček's "The Cunning Little Vixen" and "Káťa Kabanová" at the Flemish Opera (Antwerp/Ghent). De Mey appeared with operas by Monteverdi and Cavalli at New Israeli Opera, Spoleto Festival USA/Charleston, Bavarian Opera as well as at the opera houses of Paris and Copenhagen. De Mey is also well known as a lieder singer. He appeared in recital in Belgium, at the operas in Brussels and Antwerp
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Káťa Kabanová


response to Janáček's feelings for Kamila, and the work is dedicated to her. The first performance was at the National Theatre () in Brno on 23 November 1921. The opera has had a complex publication history. František Neumann, the conductor of the opera's first performance, made changes that were incorporated into the 1922 Universal Edition, the first publication of the score. The conductor Václav Talich later produced a "re-orchestrated" version of the score. In 1992, Sir Charles Mackerras published a critical edition of
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Karl-Heinz Thiemann


1973/74 season; with Dunja Vejzović as Marina and Astrid Varnay as Schenkwirtin), Hermann in "The Queen of Spades" (Premiere: October 1975; director: Werner Düggelin; musical direction: Hans Gierster), the Prince in "Rusalka" (Premiere: December 1975; director: Bohumil Herlischka, conductor: Hans Gierster), Tichon in "Káťa Kabanová" (1977) and Wladimir in "Prince Igor" (1978). Thiemann was appointed to the Nuremberg Opera House after the retirement of Sebastian Feiersinger (1975
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Karita Mattila


at the Royal Opera House. In 2001 "The New York Times" chose Karita Mattila as the best singer of the year for her performance in "Fidelio" at the Metropolitan Opera, and in the same year she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award “Outstanding Achievement in Opera”. Mattila's 2004 New York performances in "Salome" and subsequent "Káťa Kabanová" inspired the New York press to write: "When the history of the Metropolitan Opera around the time of the millennium is written, Karita Mattila will
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Bohumil Herlischka


Soherr. Astrid Varnay, the singer of the Kostelnička, wrote in her memoirs that Herlischka knew exactly how to present the emotions of peasants from Moravia. While she resented his authoritarian attitude, she admired his sense for the visual. It was followed by "Das schlaue Füchslein" ("The Cunning Little Vixen") in 1972, "Káťa Kabanová" in 1973, "Die Sache Makropulos" ("The Makropulos Affair") in a double bill with "Die Ausflüge des Herrn Brouček" ("The Excursions of
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Kathryn Day


in Respighi's "La bella dormente nel bosco". She returned to the Chautauqua Opera in 2006 as The Old Baroness in Samuel Barber's "Vanessa". Day returned to the Met in performances of "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" in 1995. After a decade long absence she returned for performances of "Káťa Kabanová" in 2005 as Glasa. She has been a regular performer with the company ever since, appearing in productions of "Rigoletto" (2005-2006 & 2009-2011, Giovanna
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Leoš Janáček


Janáček's works are still regularly performed around the world, and are generally considered popular with audiences. He would also inspire later composers in his homeland, as well as music theorists, among them Jaroslav Volek, to place modal development alongside harmony of importance in music. The operas of his mature period, "Jenůfa" (1904), "Káťa Kabanová" (1921), "The Cunning Little Vixen" (1924), "The Makropulos Affair" (1926) and "From the House of the Dead"
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Chris Merritt


the role of Idreno in Rossini's "Semiramide". That same season he sang there in the role of Arturo in "I puritani" along with Edita Gruberova and Paul Plishka, conducted by Richard Bonynge. Other principal roles in which he was featured at the Met included those in "Rusalka", with Renee Fleming and Dolora Zajick in 1997, and in "Káťa Kabanová" with Karita Mattila and Magdelena Kozena in 2005, his last appearance in that house. Elsewhere, he sang again at Covent Garden as Idreno in
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Nikolaus Lehnhoff


Isolde" (2003); the company's first staging of an opera by Richard Wagner. Other operas he directed for Glyndebourne included "Káťa Kabanová" (1988), "Jenůfa" (1989), and "The Makropulos Affair" (1995). In 1988 Lehnhoff directed Berlioz's "La damnation de Faust" at the Hamburg State Opera in a production that utilized pop video art by Suzan Pitt. In 1989 he made his debut at the Santa Fe Opera directing "The Flying Dutchman" with James Morris in
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Rosina Raisbeck


Sydney. Returning to London she sang with Sadler's Wells Opera in 1959, as Senta, and Elisabeth in "Tannhäuser", as well as the Mother in the British premiere of Luigi Dallapiccola's "The Prisoner", given by the New Opera Company at Sadler's Wells. In 1961, she gave a dramatic performance of Kabanisha in Leoš Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová". Then, having divorced her husband, she returned to Australia with her son. For the next 10 years, Raisbeck sang wherever and whatever she
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Opera Holland Park


The production was regarded as one of the most exciting in the company's history. In the same season OHP's production of Janáček's "Jenůfa" was widely regarded as one of the best realisations of the opera ever seen in London. In March 2008, Opera Holland Park's 2007 season was nominated in the category of Concert Series and Festival in the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards. The 2009 season included Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" and Donizetti's "Roberto Devereux", while 2010 plans included "Pelléas et Mélisande
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Nadine Secunde


title part of Janáceks "Káťa Kabanová", staged by Harry Kupfer and conducted by Gerd Albrecht. She performed the title role of "Arabella" by Richard Strauss at the Bavarian State Opera. Secunde appeared at the Bayreuth Festival first in 1987, as Elsa in the "Lohengrin" production conducted by Daniel Barenboim. She sang the part also at Covent Garden in London in 1988, and at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1990. From 1988 to 1992, she was in Bayreuth Sieglinde in "Die Walküre",
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Richard Riddell


for Marymount Manhattan Theatre and Alte Oper; "Káťa Kabanová" for Houston Grand Opera; "Our Town" for Guthrie Theater; and "Satyagraha" for De Nederlandse Opera, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Seattle Opera, and San Francisco Opera. Additionally, he worked on the scene design for "'Krapp's Last Tape" for Akademie der Künste, "Akhnaten", and "The Yellow Sound". Riddell won the Tony Award for Best Lighting Design, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting
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Cheryl Barker


, Liù in "Turandot"), and the Welsh National Opera (Káťa Kabanová). In 2004 she portrayed Sarah Miles in the world premiere of Jake Heggie's "The End of the Affair" at the Houston Grand Opera with her husband Peter Coleman-Wright as her role-husband and Teddy Tahu Rhodes as her lover. In 2009 she sang Cio-Cio San for her first appearance with the Paris Opera. The inaugural Australian cruise of the performing arts on the in November 2014 included Barker as well as,
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Přemysl Kočí


on the Supraphon label. Since 1966 he also worked as a stage director at the theatre. He retired from the opera stage in the late 1970s but continued to direct operas through 1983. During the 1950s and 1960s, Kočí was also active as a guest artist in opera houses in Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania, Russia and Albania. He had a considerable amount of success at the Berlin State Opera. At the Holland Festival he sang the role of Kuligin in Leoš Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" in 1959.
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English National Opera


repertoire was explored, such as the first British staging of Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová", at Mackerras's urging. Standards and company morale were improving. "The Manchester Guardian" summed up the 1950–51 London opera season as "Excitement at Sadler's Wells: Lack of Distinction at Covent Garden" and judged Sadler's Wells to have moved "into the front rank of opera houses". The company continued to leave Rosebery Avenue for summer tours to British cities and towns. The Arts Council (successor to CEMA) was
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Sabina Cvilak


Sabina Cvilak (born 8 July 1977) is a Slovenian operatic soprano, who has appeared internationally, mostly at opera houses in Europe and the United States. Her stage presence is noted in portrayals of tragic female characters such as Puccini's Liù and Mimi, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová and Wagner's Sieglinde. She is also known for singing concerts and recitals, such as Britten's "War Requiem" in London on the centenary of the composer's birth. Born in 1977 in Maribor, Cvilak graduated in 1996. She continued
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Sabina Cvilak


"War Requiem" on 10 November 2013, the centenary of the composer's birth, at the Royal Albert Hall, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Crouch End Festival Chorus, the Choristers of Westminster Abbey, tenor Allan Clayton and baritone Roderick Williams, conducted by Semyon Bychkov. She made her debut at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden in 2015 in the title role of Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová". A reviewer described her voice as souvereign, lyrical and effortless, and her acting as agile and truly creating the
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Tobias Hoheisel


Tobias Hoheisel (born 24 June 1956) is a German-born stage designer and director. At Glyndebourne he designed productions of Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová", "The Makropulos Affair" and "Jenůfa", as well as Benjamin Britten's "Death in Venice" and Smetana's "The Bartered Bride". He has designed productions for the English National Opera, The Royal Opera (Hans Werner Henze's "Boulevard Solitude" won the 2001 Laurence Olivier Award for best opera production), Welsh National Opera, Opera
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William Pell


Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová". Pell was also highly active as a guest artist with opera companies on the international stage. In 1980 he returned to the Canadian Opera Company to sing Laca Klemeň in Janáček's "Jenůfa" and in 1981 he returned to the San Francisco Opera to portray Romeo in Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette". At Oper Frankfurt he sang in the world premiere of Hans Zender's "Stephen Climax" on June 15, 1986. He had a major triumph at the Festival dei Due Mondi in
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Milan Sachs


part of Yugoslavia). He conducted the first production of Janáček's "Jenůfa" in Zagreb in 1920. He was appointed Director of Opera at the National Theatre in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1932, remaining there until 1938. In 1933 in Brno he conducted the world premiere of the ballet "Svatba", set to Stravinsky's "Les noces", choreography by Máša Cvejicová. That same year 1933 saw Sachs conduct the first performance in Brno of "Káťa Kabanová" since the 1928 death of its composer Janáček. It
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Irmgard Seefried


noted for her Mozart and Richard Strauss roles. But she also sang in other composers' operas; the title role in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", Marie in Alban Berg's "Wozzeck", Eva in "Meistersinger", Blanche in Poulenc's "Dialogues des Carmélites", and the title role in Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová". She was also a noted lieder singer, and a number of her Salzburg Festival recitals were recorded. She left many recordings of oratorio and sacred music by Bach, Mozart,
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Guy de Mey


in "Idomeneo" and "Ariadne auf Naxos" all under the direction of Kent Nagano and Bertrand de Billy; at Teatro Real de Madrid as Tichon in "Káťa Kabanová" under Jiří Bělohlávek, at the Dutch National Opera in the "The Makropulos Affair" as Vitek under Yannick Nézet-Séguin and at Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona, in Monteverdi's "L'incoronazione di Poppea" under Harry Bicket. In the 2009/10 season, he sang in "Ariadne" at Opéra national du Rhin, Strasbourg, at the Grand
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Beverly Wolff


Harrower as Bluebeard. She performed several more roles with the company through 1977, including Carry Nation, Giulietta in "The Tales of Hoffmann", Marfa in "Káťa Kabanová", and Ottavia in "L'incoronazione di Poppea". In 1964 she sang Carmen at the Santa Fe Opera, and in 1965 she sang the role again at the Chastain Amphitheater in her native as city opposite Richard Tucker as Don José. In 1967 she made her debut with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company as Suzuki in "Madama Butterfly" to the
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Juha (Merikanto)


contrasted with his wild rage when he attacks and cripples Shemeikka; Marja's love for Shemeikka and pain when he turns from her; Anja’s moving lyricism, whose love for Shemeikka is unrequited. Janáček's terseness and Szymanowski’s richness are points of reference, although the composer has a unique voice his own. One reviewer has even described the piece as “one of the great operas of the [20th] century”. However, although there are parallels with the Janáček of "Jenůfa" or "Káťa Kabanová",
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Beno Blachut


role in Smetana's "Dalibor". In addition to his performances with the Prague Opera, Blachut also occasionally worked as freelance artist, notably making guest appearances at La Fenice, Deutsche Oper Berlin, De Nederlandse Opera, the Finnish National Opera,and the Vienna State Opera. In 1959 he appeared at the Holland Festival as Boris in "Káťa Kabanová". Blachut was also active as a concert singer, appearing in productions like Dvořák's "Stabat Mater" and Janáček's "Glagolitic Mass". He was particularly known
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Mark Stringer


the Bern Theatre where he conducted such operas as "Le grand macabre", Mozart's both "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" and "Don Giovanni" as well as Giuseppe Verdi's "Don Giovanni" and "Rigoletto". Besides those operas he is well known for production of Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" and Gioachino Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" as well as "The Merry Widow" operetta of Franz Lehar and Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, among other well respected works. In 1985
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The Makropulos Affair (opera)


way as have "Jenůfa", "Káťa Kabanová" or "The Cunning Little Vixen". In 1966, the San Francisco Opera gave the first US performances (in an English translation), also with Marie Collier in the lead role. The first New York City performance was in December 1967, by the Little Orchestra Society with Naděžda Kniplová as Emilia Marty. The first Metropolitan Opera production of the opera, in an English translation, had its opening night on 5 January 1996, but ended prematurely only a few minutes
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Brian Stacey


Opera, guest conductor with The Australian Opera, and regular appearances with the opera companies of South Australia, West Australia, and Auckland (New Zealand).Stacey was a protege of the great Australian conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, studying with, and assisting him in the early 80s, and in 1995 assisting him again on a production of Janáček's Káťa Kabanová with Opera Australia. Brian Stacey died in Carlton, Melbourne on 25 October 1996, the night before the premiere of "Sunset Boulevard", due to a motorcycle accident. Stacey was
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The Storm (Tchaikovsky)


The Storm, Op. posth. 76, is an overture (in the context of a symphonic poem) in E minor composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky around June and August 1864. The work is inspired by the play "The Storm" by the Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky. The same play also inspired Leoš Janáček's opera "Káťa Kabanová". "The Storm" was Tchaikovsky's first substantial work for orchestra, written when he was only 24. He was spending the summer at the family estate of Prince Aleksey Vasilievich
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Yakov Kreizberg


difficulties with funding, job cuts, and inability to fill vacancies as factors in his departure from the Komische Oper Berlin. Kreizberg first conducted at Glyndebourne Opera in 1992, the Nikolaus Lehnhoff production of Leoš Janáček's "Jenůfa". He returned in 1995 for Deborah Warner's production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Don Giovanni" (1995, documented on DVD), and Lehnhoff's production of Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" (1998). He spoke of opera conducting generally as follows: Working in opera is the single
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Rose Pauly (singer)


Rose Pauly (sometimes Pauly-Dresden, born Rose Pollak; 15 March 1894 – 14 December 1975) was a Hungarian soprano. A native of Eperjeske, Pauly studied in Vienna with Rosa Papier-Paumgartner, and during the 1917–18 season made her debut in Hamburg in a minor role in "Martha". She next went to Gera and Karlsruhe before singing the title role in the German premiere of "Káťa Kabanová" in Cologne in 1922. 1923 saw her appear at the Vienna Staatsoper, where she would go on to
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Rebecca de Pont Davies


the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (filmed by the BBC); Katisha in "The Mikado" in a co-production between Scottish Opera and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Kabanicha in "Káťa Kabanová" for Teatro Regio in Turin and Auntie in "Peter Grimes" for Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon. Davies made her Royal Opera House début as Old Sister 2 in "Babette's Feast" in the Linbury Studio Theatre, and for them has also sung Schwertleite in "Die Walküre"
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David Pountney


at St John's College, Cambridge where he later read his degree. His first major breakthrough came in 1972 with his production of "Káťa Kabanová" for the Wexford Festival. From 1975 to 1980, he was the Director of Productions at Scottish Opera, and, from 1982 to 1993, Director of Productions at English National Opera, where he directed over twenty operas. From 1993 to 2004, he worked as a free-lance director at the Zurich Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich
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Richard Armstrong (conductor)


Lisbon, Brussels, Nice, Canada, Australia, Stuttgart, Berlin, Toulouse and Los Angeles. In 1978 he won the Janáček Medal in recognition of the pioneering Janáček cycle produced in collaboration with David Pountney for Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera. In 2004 he conducted "Káťa Kabanová" for the Janáček Festival in the composer’s native Brno to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth. Richard Armstrong made his BBC Proms début in 1979, and has worked with many leading British orchestras, including the London Philharmonic,
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Guy de Mey


La Calisto" and at La Scala in "Káťa Kabanová" as Tichon under John Eliot Gardiner and "Ariadne auf Naxos" under Jeffrey Tate. Other engagements since 2006 included guest performances in Zürich (first under J. E. Gardiner in "L'étoile" (Chabrier) and later under Christoph von Dohnányi as Tanzmeister in "Ariadne auf Naxos"; at Bavarian State Opera Munich he appeared in the world premiere of "Alice in Wonderland" by Unsuk Chin, as Monsieur Triquet in Krzysztof Warlikowski's production of "Eugene Onegin",
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Ava June


shoot Kenneth Woollam's Otello in Lohengrin's armour. Among her final assignments for the English National Opera (renamed from Sadler's Wells Opera in 1974), were the creations of roles for her of Grande Blanche in David Blake's "Toussaint" in 1977. June's final years with the English National Opera saw her return to mezzo-soprano rules, and she played the role as a strident Katy in Leoš Janáček's production "Káťa Kabanová" with Mackerras again acting as conductor. She played Countess Vronskaya in the world
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Alexandr Vladimír Hrska


the chief of stage; he prepared setting for the world premiere of the opera "Káťa Kabanová" by Leoš Janáček or The Insect Play by Karel Čapek and Josef Čapek. Ha was the external illustrator of Národní listy in 1927-1933, and arts adviser of the Slovak publisher Mazač in 1933-1936. Since 1936, he had no permanent employment. He painted, illustrated, made stage settings, took part in exhibitions and contests (bronze medal in international exhibition in Paris, 1937). Up until his death on
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Alexandr Vladimír Hrska


his employment at Vinohrady Theater because of the strike 1921/1922 – chief stage (dramaturghy: Mahen, director: V. Štěch) in City Theatre in Brno, where he made 23 stage setting in one season - he started a number of great friendships, for example with Leoš Janáček, whom he made the world premiere of his opera "Káťa Kabanová" (November 23, 1921) and later his other operas, too ("Liška Bystrouška" – "The Cunning Little Vixen", "Její pastorkyňa" – "Her Stepdaughter
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Opera


the mid-19th century, Italian opera was immensely popular in Spain, supplanting the native form. Czech composers also developed a thriving national opera movement of their own in the 19th century, starting with Bedřich Smetana, who wrote eight operas including the internationally popular "The Bartered Bride". Antonín Dvořák, most famous for "Rusalka", wrote 13 operas; and Leoš Janáček gained international recognition in the 20th century for his innovative works including "Jenůfa", "The Cunning Little Vixen", and "Káťa Kabanová". In
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Zheng Cao


her debut at Opera Pacific as Nicklausse. At Houston Grand Opera she debuted in Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" singing Varvara and later returned to sing Cherubino. Cao performed on the concert stage with the Philadelphia Orchestra where she sang Mozart's Requiem and Handel's "Messiah" with both the National Symphony Orchestra and the Warsaw Philharmonic. She performed Mahler's "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" with the San Francisco Symphony and "Das Lied von der Erde" with the Sacramento Symphony and China Philharmonic and on a tour of the Canary Islands
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Mikhail Svetlov (bass)


(Faust) Igor, Galitsky, Skula, Konchak (Prince Igor) Abimelech (Samson et Dalila) Boris, Pimen Varlaam (Boris Godunov) Dosifey, Khovansky (Khovanshchina) Prince Gremin (Eugene Onegin) King René (Iolanta) Salieri (Mozart and Salieri) Sobakin, Malyuta (The Tsar's Bride) King Dodon (The Golden Cockerel) Savël Prokofjevic Dikój (Káťa Kabanová) Colline, Benoi, Alcindoro (La bohème) Scarpia (Tosca) Timur (Turandot) Il Cieco (Iris) Aleko, Old Gypsy
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Leonie Rysanek


Strauss, and Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová". She made her farewell there as the Countess in Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades" in January 1996. She was appointed curator of the Vienna Festival a few months after her retirement, a post she held until her death in Vienna at age 71 (she had been diagnosed with bone cancer during her last Met performances). Two days later, a Metropolitan Opera production of Wagner's "Lohengrin" with Ben Heppner in the title role was dedicated to her memory.
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Claude Debussy


century composers influenced by Debussy is practically a list of 20th-century composers "tout court"." Bartók first encountered Debussy's music in 1907 and later said that "Debussy's great service to music was to reawaken among all musicians an awareness of harmony and its possibilities". Not only Debussy's use of whole-tone scales, but also his style of word-setting in "Pelléas et Mélisande", were the subject of study by Leoš Janáček while he was writing his 1921 opera "Káťa Kabanová".
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Jiří Tancibudek


Principal Oboe of both the Czech Philharmonic (under Rafael Kubelík) and the Czech Chamber Orchestra (under Václav Talich). In 1947 he met and became lifelong friends with the Australian oboist Charles Mackerras, who was studying conducting under Václav Talich in Prague. Mackerras mentioned that he had never heard an opera by Leoš Janáček, so Tancibudek suggested he attend a performance of "Káťa Kabanová" that was then playing. Mackerras did, and this experience sparked his interest in the music of Janáček, to the point that he became a
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Jaroslav Krombholc


Jaroslav Krombholc (Prague, 30 January 1918 - 16 July 1983) was a Czech conductor. Krombholc is born in a musician family. He studied in Prague Conservatory in 1937-1940 and nearby Václav Talich until 1942. After, he became conductor and director of different theatres. He made various recordings of Czech operas for Supraphon, notably Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová," and Martinů's "Julietta." He was succeeded as chief conductor and director of the National Theatre, Prague by Václav Talich. His wife was the
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Leoš Janáček


and (on his side at least) passionate correspondence with her, of nearly 730 letters. From 1917 to 1919, deeply inspired by Stösslová, he composed "The Diary of One Who Disappeared". As he completed its final revision, he began his next 'Kamila' work, the opera "Káťa Kabanová". In 1920, Janáček retired from his post as director of the Brno Conservatory but continued to teach until 1925. In 1921, he attended a lecture by the Indian philosopher-poet Rabindranath Tagore and used
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Opéra de Dijon


Ring Cycle, the first complete production in France in 30 years. The company's programming includes both the standard operatic repertory and rarely performed works, the latter sometimes given in concert version. Since 2007, its annual programming has been themed to include works by composers associated with a particular country. Its 2014/2015 season focused on Czechoslovakia with performances of "Káťa Kabanová", "Der Kaiser von Atlantis", "Brundibár", and Janáček's song cycle "The Diary of One Who Disappeared". The 250th anniversary of the
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Cheryl Barker


Cheryl Ruth Barker (born 22 April 1960, Sydney) is an Australian operatic soprano who has had an active international career since the late 1980s. She has sung on several complete opera recordings with Chandos Records, including the title roles in Dvořák's "Rusalka", Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" and Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", and Emilia Marty in Janáček's "The Makropulos Case". She has also made two solo recordings of opera arias, one with the London Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor David Parry and the
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Amy Shuard


Amy Shuard CBE (19 July 192418 April 1975) was an English operatic soprano renowned in such dramatic roles as Elektra, Turandot and Brünnhilde. She created both title roles in Janáček's "Káťa Kabanová" and "Jenůfa" in their respective British premieres. She has been described as "the best English dramatic soprano since Eva Turner" (her teacher). Shuard was born in London. After studying at the Trinity College of Music, she had lessons from Eva Turner. In 1948 the Worshipful Company of Musicians awarded her
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Josef František Munclinger


Tales of Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach. In 1921 Munclinger left Poland to join the Slovak National Theatre in Bratislava where he was committed until 1924. At this theatre he staged numerous premieres, among them the famous Slovak premiere of "Káťa Kabanová" in 1923 in the presence of Leoš Janáček who appreciated Munclinger's performance as the best at that time. During his engagement in Bratislava Munclinger married the actress Lenka Honty. After his Vienna tour in 1925 Josef František Munclinger was engaged as a soloist at the Vienna State Opera. He
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