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July 2025
2025-07-07Katya Kabanova
Bavarian State Opera | Munich, Germany

In Leoš Janáček’s opera, Katya Kabanová, the eponymous heroine is ensnared at the heart of an ominous mesh of relations. Her domineering mother-in-law, Kabanicha, oppresses and controls her son Tichon, whose marriage to Katya suffers massively from heteronomy. Because Katya finds no fulfilment in this family, she flees and fulfils her unsatisfied erotic desires in an affair with Boris. As composer and librettist, Janáček bundles the plot of the literary template, Alexander N. Ostrovsky’s drama, The Storm. The libretto largely dispenses with the portrayal of the external social circumstances, from whence Katya’s essence and choices are decisively determined. Instead, Janáček traces the development of the title character in a psychological-sensitive musical language. Katya’s feelings of guilt increase continuously until they discharge into a public confession as an emotional storm. The turbulent and in places fanciful music opens the space for passages of lyrical grace and allows us to experience the essence of the characters. In Katya, director Krzysztof Warlikowski sees an outsider, who is denied a life in harmony with her desires, and at the end prefers death over lies. The destructive power of religion behind it all is not only found in a small Russian town on the banks of the Volga in the 1860s, where the libretto places the plot, but rather can also be seen everywhere all over the world.
September 2025
2025-09-14National Radio Orchestra | Shostakovich
The Palace Hall - Sala Palatului | Bucharest, Romania

NATIONAL RADIO ORCHESTRA
RADIO ACADEMIC CHOIR
Giancarlo Guerrero - conductor
Ciprian Țuțu - choir conductor
Carmen Lidia Vidu - multimedia director
Dmitrij Shostakovich Lady Macbeth Mtsensk op. 29
Andreas Bauer Kanabas - Boris Izmailov (bass)
Vincent Wolfsteiner - Zinoviy Izmailov (tenor)
Kristine Opolais - Katerina Izmailova (soprano)
Pavel Černoch - Sergej (tenor)
Maria Barakova - Sonietka (mezzo-soprano)
September 2025
2025-09-20Jakub Hrůša and friends in concert | Bartok · Dvorak
The Royal Opera House | London, United Kingdom

New Music Director of The Royal Opera Jakub Hrůša leads the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House in a rich programme of Czech and Hungarian music. From the hallucinatory orchestral colours of Béla Bartók’s scandalous Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, to Antonín Dvořák’s rarely-heard cantata for soloists and chorus, The Spectre’s Bride, an evening of extraordinary musical storytelling awaits. Don’t miss this chance to see the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House centre stage in a thrilling programme of concert works.
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Jakub Hrůša and friends at the concert
Concert at the Royal Opera House 20th Sep 2025, 7:00pm
Opera Gala – Corinne Winters & Pavel Černoch
Opera Gala at Litomyšl Castle - 25th June 2025, 7:30pm
Pavel Černoch in Harmonie magazine
Exclusive interview with Pavel Černoch in the latest print edition of Harmonie magazine.