Janacek: Katia Kabanova: Salzburg Festival (Sylvain Cambreling) (1998)
1h 47min
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- Synopsis:
With its overt love interest and focus on individual isolation, Katia Kabanova is the first of the four operas that crowned the productive last decade of Leos Janacek (1854-1928). The operatic idioms of Dvorak and Verdi are transmuted through his singular soundworld, whose vocal lines convey subtle speech inflexions and whose orchestral writing has a keen pathos and surging emotional intensity. Christoph Marthaler's production for the 1998 Salzburg Festival updates the provincial Russia of the 1850's to that of the 1990's, a decaying tenement block whose inhabitants live out a futile existence. It neither enhances nor undermines the music, in which Angela Denoke's wan Katia gradually gains in conviction, culminating in a touching "mad scene" and ill-fated reconciliation with her lover Boris. David Kuebler is powerful in this role, while Jane Henschel is characterful but lightweight as Kabanicha (mother-in-law) and Hubert Delamboye sympathetic as Katia's put-upon husband Tichon. Sylvain Cambreling, an experienced opera conductor, directs the Czech Philharmonic skilfully and with flair. - Actors:
- Angela Denoke, David Kuebler, Jane Henschel, Hubert Delamboye, Dagmar Pecková, Rainer Trost, Henk Smit, Frédéric Caton, Ludwig Hampe, Ulrika Precht, Elisabeth Staringer, Ulrich Voß
- Directors:
- Pierre Cavassilas
- Writers:
- Vincenc Cervinka, Aleksandr Ostrovskiy
- Studio:
- TDK
- Genres:
- Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest
- Countries:
- Austria
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