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    Káťa Kabanová (also known in various spellings including Katia, Katja, Katya, and Kabanowa) is an opera in three acts, with music by Leoš Janáček to a...
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    Janáček's later works are his most celebrated. They include operas such as Káťa Kabanová and The Cunning Little Vixen, the Sinfonietta, the Glagolitic Mass,...
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    her portrayal of Káťa Kabanová as "establishing by an infinity of subtle touches and discreet, sensitive singing the picture of Káta as the richest and...
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  • Vladimir Nikitich Kashperov (libretto based directly on the play) 1921: Káťa Kabanová, Leoš Janáček (libretto by Vincenc Červinka) 1940: The Storm, Boris...
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    contrast to the often brutally serious nature of operas such as Jenůfa and Káťa Kabanová. In The Cunning Little Vixen, the composer moved away from the more...
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  • she sang a repertoire of 50 roles, especially as Janáček's Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová and The Cunning Little Vixen. She was instrumental in making the composer's...
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    directed his first opera in Frankfurt, a production of Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová, in the same year; and adapted the Henry James short story "Georgina's...
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  • Inviae', Op. 23, by Anton Webern, in some parts of the second song. Káťa Kabanová, by Leoš Janáček, for some measures in Act III between rehearsal numbers...
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  • A comic fantasy set on the moon and in 15th century Bohemia. 1921 Káťa Kabanová (Leoš Janáček). The first of the great operas of Janáček's late maturity...
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    become part of the core opera repertory in the same way as have Jenůfa, Káťa Kabanová or The Cunning Little Vixen. In 1966, the San Francisco Opera gave the...
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    Opera". Mattila's 2004 New York performances in Salome and subsequent Káťa Kabanová inspired the New York press to write: "When the history of the Metropolitan...
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    important legacy to music. In 1951, he conducted the British premiere of Káťa Kabanová. He was also a noted authority on Mozart's operas and those of Sir Arthur...
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    play The Storm (Groza) was the inspiration behind Leoš Janáček's opera Káťa Kabanová. The most notable Russian opera based on an Ostrovsky play is Nikolai...
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    Alexander Ostrovsky. The same play also inspired Leoš Janáček's opera Káťa Kabanová. The Storm was Tchaikovsky's first substantial work for orchestra, written...
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  • Pacific as Nicklausse. At Houston Grand Opera she debuted in Janáček's Káťa Kabanová singing Varvara, and later returned to sing Cherubino. Cao performed...
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    premieres include operas by Verdi (Simon Boccanegra, 1948), Janáček (Káťa Kabanová, 1951), Stravinsky (Oedipus rex, 1960), Prokofiev (War and Peace, 1972)...
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    and a complete recording of the role of Varvara in Leoš Janáček's Káťa Kabanová. She currently lives in Heuweiler, Germany with her husband Klaus Schiesser...
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    Butterfly (1904) by Giacomo Puccini Palestrina (1912) by Hans Pfitzner Káťa Kabanová (1919) by Leoš Janáček; The viola d'amore represents the title character...
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    Chandos Records, including the title roles in Dvořák's Rusalka, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová and Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and Emilia Marty in Janáček's The Makropulos...
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  • were: Beethoven: Rocco, Pizarro, Fernando (Fidelio) Janácek: Dikoj (Káťa Kabanová) Maxwell Davies: Arthur (The Lighthouse) Mozart: Bartolo (Le nozze di...
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  • Kálmán, 1936 Die Kalewainen in Pochjola, K. Müller-Berghaus, 1890/2017 Káťa Kabanová, Janáček, 1921 The Khovansky Affair, Modest Mussorgsky, 1886 King Roger...
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    subject of study by Leoš Janáček while he was writing his 1921 opera Káťa Kabanová. Stravinsky was more ambivalent about Debussy's music (he thought Pelléas...
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    tragic female characters such as Puccini's Liù and Mimi, Janáček's Káťa Kabanová and Wagner's Sieglinde. She is also known for singing concerts and recitals...
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    The Beginning of a Novel Jenůfa Destiny The Excursions of Mr. Brouček Káťa Kabanová The Cunning Little Vixen The Makropulos Affair From the House of the...
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  • were the American premieres of Tassilone [de] by Agostino Steffani, Káťa Kabanová by Leoš Janáček, and Treemonisha by Scott Joplin. He also sang the part...
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  • Siegfried at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Leoš Janáček: Káťa Kabanová – Karita Mattila (Katia), Bryjak (Dikoj), Chorus and Orquesta del Teatro...
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    Ariadne auf Naxos, Bluebeard's Castle, Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde, Káťa Kabanová and a cycle of the Mozart-Da-Ponte-operas. Edusei was appointed Principal...
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    the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten, also by Strauss, and Janáček's Káťa Kabanová. She made her farewell there as the Countess in Tchaikovsky's The Queen...
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  • the House of the Dead, I due Foscari, Salome, Fidelio, Mary Stuart, Káťa Kabanová, Peter Grimes, Tristan und Isolde, La forza del destino, The Jacobin...
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    Pirates of Penzance), Gertrud (in Hänsel und Gretel), the Kabanicha (in Káťa Kabanová), Herodias (in Salome) and Klytämnestra (in Elektra), the last five...
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