Season 2021/2022

Kát’a Kabanová

Music Leoš Janáček

Opera in Three Acts
Libretto by Leoš Janácek in the Czech translation by Vincenc Červinka based on The Storm by Aleksandr Ostrovsky

First performed, Brno National Theatre, November 23, 1921

Firs performance at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, 18 January 2022

Length: about 1h 45' without intermission

David Robertson

Richard Jones

CHORUS MASTER ROBERTO GABBIANI
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER ANTONY MCDONALD
LIGHTING DESIGNER LUCY CARTER
MOVEMENT DIRECTOR SARAH FAHIE

CAST

SAVËL PROKOFJEVIČ DIKOJ STEPHEN RICHARDSON

BORIS GRIGORIJEVIČ CHARLES WORKMAN

MARFA IGNATĚVNA KABANOVÁ SUSAN BICKLEY

TICHON IVANYČ KABANOV JULIAN HUBBARD

KATĚRINA (KÁŤA) CORINNE WINTERS / LAURA WILDE (27 January)

VÁŇA KUDRJAŠ SAM FURNESS

VARVARA CAROLYN SPROULE

KULIGIN LUKÁŠ ZEMAN

FEKLUŠA Angela Schisano *

GLAŠA Sara Rocchi *

ŽENA Michela Nardella

POZDNÍ CHODEC Giordano Massaro

* Graduated “Fabbrica” Young Artist Program of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma

TEATRO DELL’OPERA DI ROMA ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS

A Teatro dell’Opera di Roma New production
in coproduction with Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Sung in Czech with Italian and English surtitles