Washington National Opera has given us many exciting and impressive evenings over the years. And yet the company's current presentation of Leos Janacek's "Jenufa," which opened Saturday night at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time in the U. S., Jenufa, opera by Leos Janáćek, Czecho-Slovakian composer, was given at the Metropolitan. Grand were the persons of the cast; gorgeous the scenery; the music clever, ...

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 ...

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 ...