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Janacek: Kata Kabanova

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CHAN 31452

Janacek: Kata Kabanova

The tragic libretto portrays a woman driven to despair and suicide by her husband and monstrous mother-in-law. The result is a deeply moving, intensely lyrical work, as engaging in the beauty of the vocal and orchestral writing as in its story – which also revealed the tragedy of Slavic provincial life, of which Janácek was only too well aware: ‘There is much sadness and Slav tenderness and depth of feeling in it. May I find the right way to express it with equal intensity’, wrote Janácek on The Storm, the Ostrovsky play that was his source for Katya Kabanova.

Cheryl Barker (soprano) / Jane Henschel (mezzo-soprano) / Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano) / Kathleen Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano) / Claire Hampton (soprano) / Robert Brubaker (tenor) / Peter Hoare (tenor) / Peter Wedd (tenor) / Owen Webb (baritone) / Gwynne Howell (bass) / Sian Meinir (mezzo-soprano) & Philip Lloyd-Holtam (tenor)

Chorus of Welsh National Opera & Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Carlo Rizzi

Only available recording in English

“Cheryl Barker’s Katya is a huge achievement, rapturously sung, pertinently acted…” Venue Magazine (on WNO's performances of Katya Kabanova)

BBC Music Magazine