Article: Time to redress the balance on Janacek's work

Article: 'Katya Kabanova' makes Israeli debut
Jerusalem Post;  September 25, 2001 ;     406 words ... ... Jerusalem Post 09-25-2001 Headline: 'Katya Kabanova' makes Israeli debut Byline: Helen ... Ostrovsky's drama The Storm for his Katya Kabanova, which premiered in 1921. The New ... composed some nine operas of which Katya Kabanova is the sixth. His subject and heroines ...

Article: DESPITE DISTRACTING PROPS, `KATYA KABANOVA' ...
St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO);  June 18, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... None is more sympathetic than the title character in "Katya Kabanova." A beautiful, passionate young woman married to a loutish ... realizes that her only possible escape lies in death. "Katya Kabanova" has been given a flawed but finally effective production ...

Article: WORTH THE RISK; SFO's Katya Kabanova triumphs
Santa Fe Reporter;  August 5, 2003 ;     671 words ... ... opened production of Janacek's Katya Kabanova. You'll meet a relatively little ... given up or fled the scene. What makes Katya Kabanova an undisputed masterpiece of 20th ... copyright Santa Fe Reporter. Photograph (Katya Kabanova is a study in suffering and beauty ...

Article: Arts: Opera: A dark study of oppression KATYA ...
The Independent - London;  September 30, 1999 ;     624 words ... ... victims, for instance. The heroine of Katya Kabanova is a prime example, you might say ... reflect reality? And then who, in Katya Kabanova, are we meant to sympathise with ... its final denouement overwhelming. `Katya Kabanova' is at the Grand Theatre, Leeds until ...

Article: Katya Kabanova.(Features)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  June 11, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Byline: By Mike Smith Review by Mike Smith Katya Kabanova *** New Theatre, Cardiff An evening of Janacek's Katya Kabanova is always going to be a brooding and intense affair. In the hands of producer Katie Mitchell it also becomes a dramatically ...

Article: Janacek: Katya Kabanova.
The New Leader;  May 4, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... over; thereafter he wrote all his librettos. Next was Katya Kabanova (1920-21), perhaps his most popular work, dedicated ... House of the Dead, just about completed at his death. Katya Kabanova my subject here, is more correctly spelled Kat'a, but ...

Article: Opera Review: Katya Kabanova
The Scotsman;  May 25, 2009 ;     430 words ...KATYA KABANOVA *** PERTH FESTIVAL THEATRE THE conditions placed on small-scale operative English Touring Opera are not ideal for staging Janacek's Katya Kabanova. The orchestral underscoring, with its feverish string writing ...