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Composer/Librettist: Leos Janacek Conductor: Gareth Jones Director: Katie Mitchell Reviewer: Marina Spark The Public Reviews Rating: The opening notes of the Welsh National Opera’s ‘Katya Kabanova’ beautifully hint at the tale of woe that unfolds over the opera, composed by Leos Janacek. The storyline follows Katya Kabanova, a woman trapped in both a loveless marriage and a moralistic [...]

Writer: Leoš Janáček Conductor: Sir Richard Armstrong Director: Christopher Alden Reviewer: Ian Foster The Public Reviews Rating: The Makropulos Case is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček with a libretto also by Janáček after the Czech play Věc Makropulos by Karel Čapek (who, trivia fans, invented the word ‘robot’!) This is the first revival of Christopher [...]

Music: Leos Janacek Director: Nicholas Bone Musical Director: Nicholas Fletcher Reviewer: Greig Ratcliff The Public Reviews Rating: ‘The Cunning Little Vixen’ is rather an influential marker in the history of opera. First performed in 1924, its audiences were exposed to more novel operatic writing including orchestral interludes, speechless singing, mime and ballet, which broadened and expanded the concept [...]

Composer: Leoš Janáček Conductor: Martin André Director: John Fulljames Reviewer: Ian Cain If your taste in entertainment veers toward the zany, bizarre, surreal or downright nutty, then this is probably the opera for you. Be prepared to suspend your disbelief as you are introduced to Mr Matěj Brouček, a boring and opinionated property landlord and [...]

Composer: Leoš Janáček Conductor: Martin Andre Director: John Fulljames Reviewer: Lorna Andrewes Brouček , on first sight, seems to be a very weird opera. It is based on the novels of czech writer Svatopluk Cech, the main protagonist being a most unappealing character : an inebriated small-time property owner with lecherous tendencies, cowardly and without [...]