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 ...

At age 63, Czech composer Leos Janacek began his most unusual writing project — a constant stream of more than 700 love letters written to a married woman 37 years his junior. It's remarkable, ...

Leos Janacek’s “The Cunning Little Vixen” is often called a children’s opera. It’s a fairy tale set in a forest in which animals talk and understand the language of humans. The opera, which will be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Symphony-goers were reminded it was April Fools’ Day when they were greeted Friday by a fountain from a broken water main in front of the Opera House. Inside, though, the music about four notorious ...

It could have been a scandal. Leoš Janácek was past 60 years old, and his compositions were finally winning him acclaim. He had been married for decades, yet he fell in love with a woman nearly 40 ...

Donald Macleod explores composer Leoš Janáček's youth with a selection of rare chamber works including extracts from his sparkling Nursery Rhymes for choir and ensemble. The life of Leoš Janáček (1854 ...

Czech Composer Leos Janacek was 40 when he started his masterpiece, the opera Jenufa. He was close to 50 when he finished the work and past 60 before he found an audience that could appreciate it. In ...