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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Leos Janacek's final opera, From the House of the Dead, has its Metropolitan Opera premiere on November 12 in a new production by celebrated director Patrice Chéreau, making his U.S. opera debut.

Before fantasy films made it commonplace to find human and animal characters mingling freely, there was a curious, endearing opera from 1924 by Janacek. Best known in English as The Cunning Little ...

In Act Two, the Vixen (soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian) encounters a handsome, male Fox (soprano Lauren Curnow) who clearly finds her striking. At first she's cautious, but as their duet ends the two make ...

When operas first appeared about 400 years ago, they tended to be based on great stories of the Western tradition — mythological tales and historical legends. The first great opera ever composed, ...