Kát'a Kabanová
Intro
Kát'a Kabanová
Leoš Janácek
From 03/02/2004 in Antwerp - from 25/02/2004 in Ghent
- Musical direction: Friedemann Layer
- Director: Robert Carsen
- Kát'a Kabanová: Michaela Kaune
- Kabanicha: Kathryn Harries
- Boris: Richard Decker
- Kudrjas: Alexander Krawetz
Like "Jenufa", "Kát’a Kabanová" is set in a small and stifling
community that denies its members most forms of self-fulfilment. Kát’a
wants to escape from her loveless marriage with the spineless,
mother-dominated merchant Tichon and begins an affair with Boris, the
only man in her provincial environment who understands her dreams and
desires.
In the direct style that is so characteristic of him,
Janácek paints a gripping psychodrama, without frills, in which the
couleur locale is pared down to an absolute minimum.
Practical
Surtitles: Dutch.
Team
- Musical direction
- Director
- Set design
- Costumes
- Lightning
- Chorus master
- Kát'a Kabanová
- Kabanicha
- Boris
- Kudrjas
- Tichon
- Dikoj
- Varvara
- Kuligin
-
Glasa
Julie Bailly
-
Feklusa
Beatrijs Desmet
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