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16 lis 2023 · Review: “Jenufa” (3 stars) When: Through Nov. 26. Where: Lyric Opera of Chicago, 20 N. Wacker Drive. Running time: 3 hours, 5 minutes (including two intermissions) Tickets: $41-$339 at 312-827...
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.
14 lis 2023 · Courtesy Lyric Opera of Chicago. A father’s dishonor, a vengeful knife attack and even a baby’s murder. “Jenůfa” easily could have been little more than a tawdry throwaway, but in the hands of Leoš Janáček, it becomes a deeply moving story of love, atonement and forgiveness.
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 ...
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. Tomasz Konieczny stars in the haunted title role with Tamara Wilson as ...
Janáček's Jenůfa is a dark and stunning masterpiece featuring a powerful story of murder, consequence, and hope for the future. The starry cast will be led by sopranos Lise Davidsen and Nina Stemme, with Jakob Hrůša conducting Claus Guth's mesmerizing production.
18 lis 2023 · Jenůfa is now the third opera in a row this season whose plot features a woman with two suitors. Yet each opera puts its own spin on this common trope. In Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa, the titular heroine loves the carousing Števa, but not his half-brother Laca.
