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 ...
It's hard to imagine that Janacek's reputation outside his native Czechoslovakia was initially made not by his operatic works but by his chamber and orchestral music. It took a while for the world to ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Leos Janácek was even more pompous as an old man than he had been in middle age. We all laugh at politicians with PhDs who style themselves "Dr"; the composer's doctorate was only honorary, but from ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I’ve been spending some time recently on planet Janacek. You could call planet Janacek the earth inside this ...
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