Tag Archives: Pavel Černoch
Posted on 6 February 2019
Janaček’s emotionally intense opera has been given an illuminating new production by Richard Jones, with American soprano Amanda Majeski using her vocal power and wonderful purity of tone to give a beautifully sensitive and sympathetic performance in the title role. Superb conducting by Edward Gardner — see my five-star review in The Article.
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Posted on 22 July 2016
This long lost Hamlet opera opened the Bregenz Festival, celebrating both its 70th anniversary and the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. My review appeared in the Daily Telegraph.
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Posted on 26 January 2014
At the end of this post-apocalyptic vision of the opera, when Katya sings how quiet and beautiful everything is she is standing by a bathtub. Suddenly as the men sing that a woman has thrown herself into the water, she gets into the tub, slits her wrists and dies. The singers look out at the …
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