Katia Kabanova

Katia Kabanova Leoš Janáček Palais Garnier Duration: 1h55 without intermission Language: Czech Subtitles: French / English On the banks of the Volga, in a small Russian town, lives a poetic soul: Katia Kabanova.

How not to feel stifled in the company of a withdrawn husband and a tyrannical mother-in-law? Katia believes she can satisfy her thirst for the absolute in the arms of another man, but she hasn't counted on the bite of remorse that leads her to a tragic fate.

Drawing inspiration from the play The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky, Leoš Janáček delivers in 1921 to the National Theatre in Brno the magnificent portrait of a sensitive and complex woman, torn between the force of her desire and social pressure.

Tender, lyrical and burning, the score is at the surface of the skin and bathed in shimmering orchestration.

By transposing the work into the courtyard of an Eastern European building, where neighbors spy on or bore each other, director Christoph Marthaler makes the inner drama of Katia Kabanova explode.

) Christoph Marthaler, Staging Corinne Winters Kátia Kabanova John Daszak Tichon Kabanov Doris Soffel Marfa Ignatieva Kabanova (Kabanicha) Sean Panikkar Boris Grigorievitch Peixin Chen Saviol Dikoi Thomas Atkins Vania Koudriach Seray Pinar Varvara Marianne Chandelier Glacha