Season 2023/2024

Jenůfa

Music by Leoš Janáček

Opera in three acts. Libretto by the composer based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriella Preissová

World premiere: Brno National Theatre, January 21 , 1904

First performance at the Teatro Costanzi April 17, 1952

Length: First Act 45 minutes; Intermission 30 minutes; Second Act 50 minutes; Intermission 25 minutes; Third Act 35 minutes

conductor

Juraj Valčuha

Director

Claus Guth

CHORUS MASTER Ciro Visco
SET DESIGNER Michael Levine
COSTUME DESIGNER Gesine Völlm
LIGHTING DESIGNER James Farncombe
VIDEO rocafilm/Roland Horvath
CHOREOGRAPHER Teresa Rotemberg
DRAMATURG Yvonne Gebauer

CAST

THE OLD BURYJOVKA Manuela Custer
LACA KLEMEŇ Charles Workman
ŠTEVA BURYJA Robert Watson
SACRISTAN BURYJOVKA (KOSTELNIČKA) Karita Mattila
JENŮFA Cornelia Beskow
FOREMAN David Stout
MAYOR Lukáš Zeman
MAYOR’S WIFE Anna Viktorova
KAROLKA Sofia Koberidze
HERDSWOMAN Ekaterine Buachidze*
BARENA Valentina Gargano*
JANO Mariam Suleiman*