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 ...

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 work of the Czech composer Leos Janacek again takes center stage with “Jenufa,” the latest in a series at the Royal Opera House. By Rebecca Schmid For the first time in company history, the Royal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. San Francisco Opera presents Leoš Janá?ek's V?c Makropulos (The Makropulos Case), ...

The towering late operas of Leos Janacek (1854-1928) have a capacity to thunder from the stage in ways that are hard to describe with language. But when performed with skill and conviction, works such ...

Ausrine Stundyte returns to the Royal Opera to sing the mysterious Emilia Marty - Camilla Greenwell/The Royal Opera How long is long enough to live? Leoš Janáček’s weird and wonderful 1926 ...

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 ...

Boston has largely ignored one of the great opera composers of the 20th century: Leos Janácek. In 1985, Sarah Caldwell staged for her Opera Company of Boston one of Janácek’s masterpieces, “The ...

Conductor Charles Mackerras died of cancer last night in London at age 84. Mackerras conducted the English National Opera, the Royal Opera and the BBC Concert Orchestra, among many others. But it was ...