Over the last several decades, the landmark operas of Leos Janacek have been emerging from the fringes of the repertory and winning deserved favor with mainstream audiences. The Metropolitan Opera ...

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Katya Kabanova is a lush, compelling three-act opera with an alluring backstory. The story is only creepy and misogynistic if you take it out of its early-20th-century context. Composer Leos Janacek ...

The long drought is over. With next week's production of "Jenufa," and additional projects set for the next two seasons, the works of Leos Janacek, perhaps the most singularly moving legacy of 20th ...

FOR the first time in company history, the Royal Opera House is mounting a cycle devoted to Czech composer Leos Janacek. Following From the House of the Dead - presented in its house premiere two ...

What you need to knowA new production of Leos Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen has opened at Garsington Opera, at Wormsley, Buckinghamshire. Daniel Slater directs Czech composer Janacek's 1924 comic ...

SAN DIEGO — As the operas of Janacek enter into the repertory, no self-respecting opera house dares ignore them. Saturday night at the Civic Theatre, San Diego Opera entered into the ranks of the self ...

The opening words of Janacek's opera "Kat'a Kabanova" refer to the Volga river, but they apply equally well to the San Francisco Opera's torrential and fluid new production, which opened Sunday ...

In From the House of the Dead, Toronto's Canadian Opera Company takes on an opera that's so difficult, and so unusual, that it's rarely performed. Based on a book by Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, ...

In May 1916 Czech composer Leos Janacek was preparing to go to a spa for some well-deserved R&R when he happened to read a group of anonymous poems published in a local newspaper. The verses told the ...