Karita Mattila will continue the unforgettable interpretations of Janá?ek. A description of the fate of the young woman's stabbing is one of the most important works of 20th-century Opera. Jen?fa ...

Janáček’s harrowing tale stars Oksana Dyka in the title role, the victim of sin and hypocrisy in a rural village. The great Karita Mattila plays her stepmother, the Kostelnička, the moral guardian of ...

Leoš Janáek is now acknowledged as one of the greatest opera composers of the early 20th century and Jenufa is perhaps his finest and certainly his most intense work. It is not often seen, however, ...

When the playwright Gabriela Preissová was first approached for permission to turn her play Její Pastorkyňa into an opera she was reluctant. Having been warned by a friend that opera will oppress or ...

While four of Leos Janácek’s five great operas were written in the same period, one — “Her Stepdaughter” — was composed much earlier. Known today outside of Prague as “Jenufa,” it was given its season ...