Sir Simon Rattle: Katya Kabanova
Listen on BBC Radio 3 & Sounds
Available until 13 November
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The Concert
Leoš Janáček Katya Kabanova
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Amanda Majeski Katya
Simon O’Neill Boris
Katarina Dalayman Kabanicha
Andrew Staples Tichon
Ladislav Elgr Kudrjas
Magdalena Kožená Varvara
Sir John Tomlinson Dikoj
Sarah Pring Glasha & Feklusha
Lukáš Zeman Kuligin
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
concert performance, sung in Czech
Listen
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 14 October at 7.45pm.
Available to listen on BBC Sounds until 13 November.
Janáček’s opera of loneliness, love, and the price of passion, in a dramatic concert performance from Sir Simon Rattle and a hand-picked, star-studded cast.
Katya is young, sensitive and desperate for love. But trapped in a remote country village with a bored husband and his snobbish family, she has no way out, until a summer thunderstorm changes everything. Uncompromisingly honest, and pulsing with intensely human emotion, the story of Katya Kabanova is written in music that cuts straight to the chase.
