Katja Kabanova - Opera

Leoš Janáček’s best-kept secret, his ravishingly beautiful and devastatingly moving opera Katya Kabanova, is enjoying a surge in popularity. This story of one woman’s emotional collapse and bid for escape from her suffocating community was fuelled by the composer’s love for a woman resembling Kat’a herself. It brought from the Czech composer the most intense music of his career, a work of lacerating violence, compelling tension and wondrous lyricism.

In collaboration with Bergen National Opera, Jiří Rožeň conducts this performance of Janáček’s opera in which the orchestra is arguably the most vital protagonist of all. Shocking, wounding but rapturous and exultant, there is no opera quite like Katya Kabanova.

4, 6, 8 and 10 November 2023
Grieghallen

Sung in Czech, surtitles in Norwegian  
Duration 1 hour 45 minutes  

A new production by Bergen National Opera
Presented by Bergen National Opera in collaboration with Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Edvard Grieg Choirs