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Kát’a Kabanová Premiereopera in three acts Music: music by Leoš Janáček Libretto: Leoš Janáček after the play by Alexander Ostrovsky The Storm Music Director of the production: Peter Feranec Stage Director: Niels-Peter Rudolph Stage Designer: Volker Hintermeier Costume Designer: Sue Bühler Lighting Designer: Mikhail Mekler Costume Engineer: Alla Marusina Principal Chorus Master: Vladimir Stolpovskikh Chorus Masters: Sergey Tsyplyonkov, Alexey Dmitriyev Director: Yulia Prokhorova Assistant Conductor: Mikhail Leontyev Rehearsal Conductor: Andrey Velikanov Mimence Director: Irina Kuzmina Assistant Director: Daria Panteleyeva Stage Designer's Assistant: Oleg Molchanov Costume Designer's Assistant: Anna Kotlova Czech Language Consultant: Elena Kolomiytseva Principal Pianists: Maria Kopyseva, Marc Vainer Stage Manager: Olga Kokh Premiere at the Mikhailovsky Theatre: December 16, 2010 Running time: 2 hours Performance has one interval Performed in Czech (the performance will have synchronised Russian supertitles) The first opera premiere of the 178th season is Kát’a Kabanová, written by a most interesting representative of the Czech music Leoš Janáček, a realist composer, who always strove to convey the truth of life in his compositions. The opera is largely based on The Storm, a play by the renowned Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky. The libretto was written by the composer. Janáček abridged the everyday and genre components but developed the lyric one; he kept the main lines of action and revealed the depth of Katerina’s drama. Janáček’s music is full-blooded; it’s the movement towards life and light. It’s healthy, boiling hot, spirited and arresting. One can see Janáček’s interest in people’s speech in it: he used the melodic elements borrowed from the everyday colloquial intonations. The opera is truthful and highly emotional, though it doesn’t have direct relationship with Russian folklore; it appears that the composer didn’t set the task of expressing the local flavour. On the whole, the opera is an almost ideal combination of the beautiful music and drama, hence, there’s something to be sung, acted, and invented.
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