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13 lis 2023 · Performances of Janáček operas are rare things in Chicago and it’s been 14 years since the last local outing with Katya Kabanova. Which makes director Claus Guth’s hubristic Jenůfa staging (abetted by revival director Axel Weidauer) even more maddening.
16 lis 2023 · In Act 2, we catch up to Jenufa trapped in a cagelike nest of iron bed frames, a twin reference to her pregnancy and drug-induced slumber — an interesting idea in concept, if not execution. In a...
14 lis 2023 · Tickets: $41-$339. Info: lyricopera.org/jenufa. The story is set in 19th-century Moravia, a region of what is now the Czech Republic, where societal mores and religious dictates controlled all aspects of life, and a birth out of wedlock could lead to social banishment and lifetime shame.
12 lis 2023 · Jenůfa. at Lyric Opera of Chicago. By Cameron Kelsall, 12 November 2023. Jenůfa might be the most strangely uplifting story in the entire operatic repertory. Sure, the drama includes the murder of an innocent baby, a woman’s mutilation at the hands of her future husband, the brutal class politics of rural 19th-century life, and lots of ...
26 cze 1987 · Vietnam, via Kubrick. Sprawling, scalding, often piercing. Like ''The Short Timers,'' Gustav Hasford's spare, manic novel on which it is based, the Kubrick film seems so utterly reasonable that ...
14 mar 2023 · The Lyric Opera of Chicago will present six operas in the 2023-24 season—one more than the current season but still down from the eight productions that have been its core for decades. Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman ( Der fliegende Holländer ) opens the season September 23.
Jenůfa is a must-see event in Chicago’s fall arts season. A heart-wrenching score tells a painful story, but there is hope. Janáček’s score, partially inspired by Moravian folk music, is filled with gorgeous, sweeping melodies and an expressive orchestration that makes Jenůfa sound unlike any other opera at Lyric this season.
