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Janacek - Kat'a Kabanova Davis, Gustafson, Palmer, Glyndebourne Opera
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Janacek - Kat'a Kabanova Davis, Gustafson, Palmer, Glyndebourne Opera
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by Barry McCauley, Felicity Palmer, Ryland Davies, Nancy Gustafson, and John Graham-Hall
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Listener Reviews & Comments
This production of Katya Kabanova is OK, but not much more than that. It has respectable singers, especially in Nancy Gustafson and Felicity Palmer, but they appear bloodless and dull, and the orchestra, as another reviewer has pointed out, has faded into the background. Add this to Glyndebourne's totally non-descript sets and costumes, and you get something that's sort of dull. Also, there are some cuts from Janacek's original score, which is absolutely unfathomable in an opera that doesn't run for an hour and a half in its full version A much better choice is the Salzburg Festival DVD of this opera by TDK. First, the negatives: it's one of those productions by a European director who thinks that Janacek would have done it this way if only he had just been as clever as the director. It's set not on the banks of the Volga, but in the courtyard of a Soviet-era apartment building somewhere in Eastern Europe. There are a few distractors: a non-singing drunk/demented person (take your choice) who is on-stage all the time; a broken fountain that substitutes for the Volga; the Kabanicha's room perpetually open onto the stage, and so on. However, the positives far outweigh the negatives. Angela Denoke is incandescent as Katya. The entire supporting cast beats the Glyndebourne cast, one-on-one, hands down. Dagmar Peckova (Varvara) and Rainer Trost (Kudryas) elevate their roles through their artistry to primario status. The orchestra(the Czech Philharmonic, Sylvain Cambreling conducting) is clear and powerful, and well-balanced with the singers. Worst case, you can turn off the picture and just listen to it. I got my copy of this version of KK from the Royal Opera's website (Region 0 encoded). ...
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Janacek - Kat'a Kabanova Davis, Gustafson, Palmer, Glyndebourne Opera
by Barry McCauley, Felicity Palmer, Ryland Davies, Nancy Gustafson, and John Graham-Hall
Price:$26.99
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