Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By and large, the wait was worth it. When lockdown hit in March last year, it shut down the Royal Opera’s new ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- Leos Janacek's opera "Jenufa," first performed by the Metropolitan Opera in 1924, is getting a new production by the company this season that is likely to enrage some of the ...

Claus Guth’s Royal Opera production of Janacek’s Jenufa was scheduled to open in March 2020, but was aborted at the last moment by Covid. Better late than never. It has now opened, and it makes a ...

Whether we knew it or not, the operatic world has been waiting all this time for Karita Mattila to sing the role of Kostelnicka, the imperious and morally conflicted stepmother in Janácek’s fierce ...

Houston Grand Opera has opened its winter season with Leos Janácek's great but under-appreciated tragedy Jenufa. Compelling singing, a riveting production and Janácek's luminous music combined for a ...

The Royal Opera’s incoming music director conducts a performance of rare intensity and authority, with Corrine Winters and Karita Mattila compelling in the two central roles Antonio Pappano’s 23-year ...

Conductor Jonathan Lyness handled the emotional undercurrents of the Czech composer’s classic work with care in a stark, controlled new production The tragedy of Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa – its painful ...

AN OPERA by famed Czech composer Leoš Janáček was staged in 1920, the inaugural year of the Slovak National Theatre (SND) in Bratislava, and it has returned to that stage for the first time since 1986 ...

Around the turn of the 20th century, opera, which had tended to romanticize the world, began to show its brutality. In Bedrich Smetana’s 1866 “The Bartered Bride,” for example, Czech peasants perform ...

Jenufa” doesn’t come around often, but when it does, it’s an unforgettable experience. San Francisco Opera, which had previously presented Janacek’s 1904 opera only four times in the company’s history ...