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	Kátya Kabanová @ Royal Opera House, London: opera review
		When, from the depths of her conscience, Katya confesses her affair with another man, the mother-in-law from hell says she should be buried alive as punishment but in truth she already is, suffocating under a brutal regime where merely looking out of the window is considered a sin.
		Her Katya, caught between deep religious feeling and the need for a comforting personal love, is deeply affecting and beautifully sung.
		Katya says she feels as though she's being pulled into an abyss and, in contrast to her flights of fancy, Maria Björnsen's monochrome Munch-like streaks of sky meld into the muddy ground, reflecting the downward pull of her oppressive life.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/roh-kabanova_0607.htm (521 words)

	Katia Kabanova-Janacek (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As for Katya, continues Kabanicha, she is always interfering, trying to usurp Kabanicha's place as head of the family, and making an improper public display of her affection for her husband.
		Katya cries that some terrible sin is threatening her; the Devil comes to her at night, whispering dreadful and disgusting temptations; someone is calling to her and she feels herself going with him.
		Katya dashes in, wild-eyed and distraught, certain that the storm is a symbol of God's punishment for her infidelity.
	www.creando.nl /barbarahaveman/katia5.htm (1900 words)

	katyaoct1399
		Katya wears a white blouse and beige skirt, while the Kabanicha wears a simple, sober suit.
		In the second act when the two younger women meet their lovers, the stage is brought to life by Varvara's peasant dress and Katya's red embroidered skirt and jacket.
		The Kabanicha's first exit in act one leaves Katya caged in by a circle of chairs, with the stage suddenly plunged into darkness but for the intense spotlight in which she stands and from which she cannot escape.
	www.homestead.com /operalandreviews/katyaoct1399.html (557 words)

	Theatre Review - Janacek's Katya Kabanova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Czech master brings the vivid tonal palette and emotional directness of his large symphonic works to this relatively intimate opera, resulting in a depth of character that can't be obtained from the words alone.
		Katya can tell us of the angelic visions she had as a child, for example, but the music that accompanies it fills in details that defy verbal description.
		It raises Katya from the pathetic to the tragic.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/katya.html (465 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- SD Opera's 'Katya' deserves bigger audience to appreciate fine staging
		Dame Josephine Barstow was chillingly sadistic as Katya's oppressive mother-in-law.
		As Boris, Katya's lover, Raymond Very brimmed with believability while Boris' abusive uncle, Dikoi, was a creep who had a cane and a kinky little secret with Katya's mother-in-law.
		Priti Gandhi gave a warm and winning performance as Varvara, the sympathetic member of Katya's household, and Doug Jones was likable as her folk song-singing boyfriend.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040419-9999-1c19katya.html (606 words)

	The Daily Cougar--Entertainment News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A desperate woman is trapped in a dead-end marriage to a man whose loyalty is helplessly torn between his wife and his mother.
		This is the main theme of the opera Katya Kabanova, being presented at the Wortham Center's Brown Theater.
		Katya Kabanova is highly recommended, running only one hour, 34 minutes with no intermission.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol66/53/shobiz/shobiz2.html (368 words)

	Katya Kabanova
		Katya, drifting apart from her weak husband, is drawn into a love affair with a more sophisticated man. The shattering consequences are the stuff of great operatic drama.
		Katya is married to the ineffectual Tichon, who cannot stop his domineering mother, Kabanicha, from browbeating his wife.
		Katya is terrified of the "sin" she is committing, and becomes increasingly worried about the return of her husband.
	www.opera-australia.org.au /opera/oaweb.nsf/lookups/KATYAKABANOVA-OPER-?opendocument (364 words)

	Katya Kabanova: Royal Opera - MusicalCriticism.com (Opera Review)
		Janácek's Katya Kabanova at the Royal Opera House is memorable because of its extraordinary artistic excellence.
		During the final farewell scene for Katya and her lover Boris, the string instruments sounded as if they were crying.
		The story of Katya Kabanova (based on The Storm by Ostrovsky) is not a million miles from Shostakovich's Katerina Ismailova, which was the first opera Mackerras conducted for the Royal Opera (1964).
	www.musicalcriticism.com /opera/roh-katya.htm (719 words)

	Review/Opera; Benackova and Rysanek in New 'Katya Kabanova' - New York Times
		Though the part lies cruelly high and several of Katya's scenes amount to concertos for the solo voice, Miss Benackova's bright, soaring soprano made light of difficulties.
		Katya could come off as superficial, or even silly, which would make her suicide less than the rustic tragedy it must seem when she is rejected by the more sophisticated Boris.
		Underpinning her efforts and those of the entire excellent cast was the idiomatic conducting of Charles Mackerras, the Australian musician, long a Janacek champion, who led the London premiere of this opera 40 years ago.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE6DD103EF934A15751C0A967958260 (647 words)

	Janacek, Katya Kabanova, Welsh National Opera Cardiff 5th June 2004 [BK] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was all thoroughly competent of course, WNO is never less than that, but ‘lacking rapture’ was a phrase that sprang to mind by the interval.
		Janacek wrote that Katya, his sixth opera, was ‘one of my most tender works,’ and his score contrasts extreme beauty with fateful oppression to wonderful emotional effect.
		The two sets of lovers, Varvara and Kudryash, Boris and Katya, are unable to take delight from their relationships and Katya’s guilt particularly, stifles rejoicing.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2004/May-Aug04/wno_katya56.htm (648 words)

	Straight outta Czechoslovakia \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		"Katya Kabanova," the romantic tragedy by Czech composer Leos Janacek that premiered in 1921 and is considered one of his finest works.
		"Katya" is San Diego Opera's first work by Janacek, but despite "Katya's" attributes – a compelling story, vivid characters and a masterfully crafted score that's often hauntingly beautiful – it's not an easy sell.
		Katya falls for her neighbor Boris (Raymond Very), who has his own problems, chiefly a domineering uncle (James Scott Sikon), who controls his inheritance.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040415/news_lz1w15opera.html (569 words)

	Katya Kabanova Press Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Katya, portrayed by Patricia Racette, begs her husband Tichon, played by Jay Hunter Morris, not to leave town in San Diego Opera's new production of Katya Kabanova.
		Katya, sung by Patricia Racette, is torn by desire for her lover, portrayed by Raymond Very, in San Diego Opera's 2004 new production of Katya Kabanova.
		Katya, sung by Patricia Racette, confesses her infidelity to her husband Tichon, played by Jay Hunter Morris, and her hateful mother-in-law sung by Dame Josephine Barstow in San Diego Opera's 2004 new production of Katya Kabanova.
	www.sdopera.com /pressphotos/katya.html (286 words)

	Villains and Victims II: Katya Kabanova at Finnish National Opera 30th December 2003 (BK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Never less than vocally radiant, tender and passionate by turns, guilt ridden to the point of suicide and yet somehow still defiant even in the act of self-destruction, Mattila as Katya is probably one of the greatest interpreters of the role ever.
		During the orchestral prelude a motionless woman was wrapped slowly in a veil or winding sheet and was carried off into darkness by two dark male figures.
		And after Katya’s suicide, the cast was caught in a seemingly endless round - dance in front of a flaming orange and red back-drop, like Paolo and Francesca da Rimini in Dante’s outermost circle of hell.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2004/Jan-Apr04/katya3012.htm (585 words)

	Public Arts : Katya Kabanova (2007-05-10)
		Although it is only eight years since Tim Albery directed Janacek's Katya Kabanova for Opera North, with designs by Hildegard Bechtler, their new concept - spare in direction, economical in design, and beautifully lit by Peter Mumford - provides a completely fresh take on Katya.
		Her soaring soprano is in tune with Janacek's concept of his doomed heroine as someone "of such a soft nature that...
		Even when Katya's music is confined to the orchestra, under Richard Farnes the instruments vividly convey her feelings and desires.
	www.publicbroadcasting.net /wamc/arts/article/2/1083/1073099/Classical/Katya.Kabanova (436 words)

	UH - News Releases - ‘KATYA KABANOVA,’ JANACEK’S CLASSIC OF PASSION AND HYPOCRISY, COMES TO LIFE AT ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The haunting music and tragic drama of Leos Janacek’s “Katya Kabanova” come to life this week as the celebrated opera debuts at the University of Houston’s Moores Opera Center on Friday, April 4.
		Set in 19th century Czarist Russia, “Katya Kabanova” tells the story of an agreeable but despondent woman, Katya, trapped in a loveless marriage and harried by a domineering mother-in-law.
		Disillusioned, Katya turns to the watery solace of the Volga River and ends her unhappy life.
	www.uh.edu /admin/media/nr/2003/042003/katyakabano040103.html (302 words)

	Royal Opera House Booking Period 4 2006/7 Season - KATYA KABANOVA
		Boris has fallen for Katya, a restless woman trapped in her claustrophobic marriage to a weak husband and dominated by a jealous mother-in-law who uses her ideas of propriety as a weapon of control.
		It is a recipe for disaster, especially when Varvara, her meddlesome sister-in-law, puts temptation in the form of a night-time assignation with Boris right in Katya's path.
		He was the conductor for the first performances in Britain of Katya Kabanova in 1951 and has recorded the opera several times.
	online.royaloperahouse.org /katyaperformance.htm (238 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - Katya Kabanova (Opera North at the Grand Theatre, Leeds)
		Yet Katya is that comparatively rare bird amongst twentieth century operas, a work that audiences tend to fall in love with at first hearing.
		The gentle and devout young wife Katya (Giselle Allen) is trapped in a loveless marriage to Tichon (John Graham Hall), a man still firmly under the thumb of his overbearing mother Kabanicha (Sally Burgess).
		At first Katya is horrified by the suggestion but she is unable to resist temptation.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/ONkatya-rev.htm (595 words)

	Katya Kabanova
		KATYA KABANOVA explores the external and internal conflicts that arise in human relationships - domination versus submission, tradition versus liberalization, duty versus desire, and one generation versus the other.
		Trapped in the claustrophobic household of her tyrannical mother-in-law Kabanicha, the young Katya is torn between her marital duty to her inattentive husband Tikhon and her attraction to the handsome Boris Grigorjevic.
		New York native Catherine Malfitano (Katya Kabanova) is acclaimed for her commanding vocalism, superb musicianship, elegant stage presence and riveting dramatic abilities.
	www.houstontheatre.com /hgopera/katya.html (2017 words)

	Katya Kabanova
		Boris, tied by the terms of his grandmother's will to employment with his unreasonable and tyrannical uncle, complains to Kudrjáš and admits that he is in love with Katya, now returning from church in a party led by her domineering mother-in-law, who abuses her son and Katya.
		Inside the house Katya tells the servant Varvara of her unhappiness, the latter urging her to look to others, apart from her husband.
		She makes him elicit from Katya a promise not to see any other men, while he is away.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Katya_Kabanova.htm (349 words)

	Intermezzo: Katya Kabanova
		A few days ago, despite critical raves, maybe half of tonight's stalls seats for Katya Kabanova were unsold.
		Liora Grodnikaite, a late sub for the sick Linda Tuvås, was as impressive playing Varvara as she had been last week in her small role in Thaïs, finding the right note of bubbly optimism to contrast with the doomed Katya.
		Kurt Streit as Katya's lover Boris took a while to settle vocally, and generally gave a rather understated performance, as did Chris Merritt as Katya's husband Tichon - underlining Mackerras's emphasis on Katya at the unquestioned centre of the drama.
	intermezzo.typepad.com /intermezzo/katya_kabanova/index.html (481 words)

	CABF e Bulletin: San Diego Opera Supports CABF (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Katya Kabanova, by Leos Janacek, is a romantic opera written and sung in Czech about a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage to the spineless Tichon, their lives dominated by a hateful mother-in-law, Kabanicha.
		CABF works to educate the public that today, unlike in the times of Katya Kabanova, depression is treatable and the Volga River is not the only option.
		Guests were fortunate to meet Patricia Racette, (Katya), a “shining lyric soprano who sings out of a full heart” and mezzo-soprano Dame Josephine Barstow, the cruel Kabanicha.
	www.imakenews.com /cabf/e_article000264832.cfm?x=b11,0,w (435 words)

	San Diego Magazine - covering San Diego entertainment, fashion, events and news.
		Tormented by her heartless mother-in-law, bored with her feckless husband and confused by her burgeoning adulterous appetites, poor Katya drowns herself in the river.
		Katya’s tragedy is less familiar, but it forms the basis for Katya Kabanova, a disturbing musical drama by Leo´s` Janá´c`ek, one of 20th-century opera’s luminaries.
		(Katya Kabanova, Apr. 17 & 20 at 7, Apr. 23 at 8, Apr. 25 at 2; Don Carlo, Mar. 27 & 30 at 7, Apr. 2 at 8, Apr. 4 at 2, Apr. 7 at 7, both at the Civic Theatre, Third Ave.
	www.sandiegomag.com /issues/april04/agenda30404.asp (535 words)

	katyanov1000
		And with a cast such as the one which greeted the Covent Garden audience on opening night, reservations are quickly dispensed with.
		Soprano Amanda Roocroft is becoming increasingly acclaimed for her Janacek interpretations (this year she returned to Glyndebourne to sing Jenufa, having previously appeared there as Katya).
		Without intending to be sexist (I could say the same about certain male conductors) I appreciate the feminine touch she brings to her work I seem to have only ever heard her conduct performances of very female-weighted operas ("Katya", obviously, and "Traviata").
	www.homestead.com /operalandreviews/katyanov1000.html (327 words)

	San Diego Arts Guide > Performing Arts, Theatre, Concerts, Dance, Symphony, Opera, Music, Arts, Museums, Balboa Park : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Katya can't shake the spectre of her mother-in-law's meddling.
		Local set designer Jane LaMotte paints a chilling backdrop for "Katya." An enormous religious icon and a delicate earthbound skrim symbolically encapsulate the conflict between expectation and need, responsibility and passion.
		Celebrated singer Patricia Racette is Katya Kabanova, and Dame Josephine Barstow is mother-in-law Kabanicha.
	entertainment.signonsandiego.com /profile/270518 (216 words)

	Katya 1.1.05
		Katya's greater nuances make the complex role a greater challenge for sopranos:vocally, Salome may be more daunting than Janacek's heroine but the drama of Salome is explicitly unveiled before an audience whereas Katya must play her drama off the residents of Kanilov.
		Karita's Katya was performed with a delicate dementia, her every movement sublime, her every action consummate, her every utterance a bulls-eye.
		Katya Kabanova is an ensemble opera so much so that Katya has to go mad to get the stage to herself.
	www.nycoperafanatic.com /katyakabanova010105.html (1383 words)

	Janacek, Katya Kabanova, Welsh National Opera Cardiff 5th June 2004 [BK] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It was all thoroughly competent of course, WNO is never less than that, but ‘lacking rapture’ was a phrase that sprang to mind by the interval.
		Janacek wrote that Katya, his sixth opera, was ‘one of my most tender works,’ and his score contrasts extreme beauty with fateful oppression to wonderful emotional effect.
		The two sets of lovers, Varvara and Kudryash, Boris and Katya, are unable to take delight from their relationships and Katya’s guilt particularly, stifles rejoicing.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2004/May-Aug04/wno_katya56.htm (648 words)

	artsworld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The religious and once happy Katya feels she is fading away in the house of her weak husband Tichon and his fearsome mother Kabanicha.
		Distraught, Katya drowns herself (in the Volga in Janacek's original; in this version, in a fountain modelled on the one in Brno, Janacek's home town).
		Tichon, who tries to go in after her, is stopped by his mother who persists that Katya is not worth it.
	www.artsworld.com /genre/features.asp?ID=2199&genreID=2 (177 words)

	Del Mar mezzo returns for 'Katya Kabanova' North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County News - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		San Diego Opera's staging of "Katya Kabanova" is a landmark for the company in many ways.
		Completed by Czech composer Leos Janacek in 1921, "Katya Kabanova" is a dark story of a repressed housewife driven to desperate measures in a small 1860s-era Russian village.
		Katya is physically abused by her drunkard husband, Tichon, and verbally abused by her overbearing stepmother, Kabanicha.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2004/04/14/entertainment/theater/4_14_0412_44_56.txt (1529 words)

	Villains and Victims II: Katya Kabanova at Finnish National Opera 30th December 2003 (BK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Never less than vocally radiant, tender and passionate by turns, guilt ridden to the point of suicide and yet somehow still defiant even in the act of self-destruction, Mattila as Katya is probably one of the greatest interpreters of the role ever.
		During the orchestral prelude a motionless woman was wrapped slowly in a veil or winding sheet and was carried off into darkness by two dark male figures.
		And after Katya’s suicide, the cast was caught in a seemingly endless round - dance in front of a flaming orange and red back-drop, like Paolo and Francesca da Rimini in Dante’s outermost circle of hell.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2004/Jan-Apr04/katya3012.htm (585 words)

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