LEOS JANACEK (1854-1928)

Katya Kabanova

91:38

Opera in 3 acts

Libretto by the composer after Ostrovsky's play The Storm in the Czech translation by Cervinka, English translation by Norman Tucker, with revisions by Rodney Blumer and Henrietta Bredin

Act I

Scene 1

1

[Introduction]

4:19

2

'Marvellous! Really, just admit it'

1:35

Kudryash, Glasha

3

'What d'you think you're hanging around for?'

0:57

Dikoi, Boris

4

'Is your mistress at home?'

3:23

Dikoi, Glasha, Kudryash, Boris, Feklusha

5

'All of them so good and pious'

2:03

Feklusha, Boris, Kudryash

6

'If you want to obey your mother'

4:31

Kabanicha, Tichon, Katya, Varvara

7

Intermezzo I

1:04

Scene 2

8

'I'm always wondering'

5:46

9

'Madness? Oh, how I wish I really knew'

2:57

Katya, Varvara

10

'Ah, but you, what can you know of this?'

1:56

Katya, Varvara, Feklusha, Glasha, Tichon

11

'Do you not love me any more?'

2:52

Katya, Tichon

12

'It's time, Tichon'

3:50

Kabanicha, Tichon, Katya

Act II

Scene 1

13

'There now, you're always boasting'

2:05

Kabanicha, Katya

14

'It's so warm indoors'

3:23

Varvara, Katya, Dikoi, Kabanicha

15

'No, no, no one, yet my heart was beating'

2:13

Katya

16

'It's nothing much'

2:38

Dikoi, Kabanicha

17

Intermezzo II

0:56

Scene 2

18

[Introduction]

1:05

19

'Nobody here yet!'

3:37

Kudryash, Boris

20

'Far away my love is gone across the water'

1:46

Varvara, Kudryash, Boris

21

'Is that you, Katerina Petrovna?'

5:26

Boris, Katya

22

'So you've found each other'

5:45

Varvara, Boris, Kudryash, Katya

Act III

Scene 1

23

'Raining!' 'There's a storm coming'

4:05

Kuligin, Kudryash, Dikoi

24

'Psst! Psst! Boris, listen to me!'

1:06

Varvara, Boris

25

'Oh, Varvara! I shall die!'

2:44

Katya, Zena, Varvara, Chorus, Kudryash, Dikoi, Kabanicha, Tichon

Scene 2

26

'Ah, Glasha! It's awful to think of it'

2:01

Tichon, Glasha, Varvara, Kudryash

27

'No! Nobody here'

5:20

Katya, Kuligin

28

'And yet death won't come to me'

4:27

Katya, Boris

29

'Thanks be to God!'

1:50

Boris, Katya

30

'No, not that!'

2:42

Katya, Boris

31

'Birds will sing as they fly above me'

0:49

Katya

32

'Hey there, a woman has jumped in the river!'

1:57

Kuligin, Passer-by, Dikoi, Glasha, Tichon, Kabanicha

Jane Henschel mezzo-soprano - Marfa Kabanova

Peter Hoare tenor - Tichon Kabanov

Cheryl Barker soprano - Katerina

Gwynne Howell bass - Dikoi

Robert Brubaker tenor - Boris Grigoryevich

Victoria Simmonds mezzo-soprano - Varvara

Peter Wedd tenor - Vanya Kudryash

Kathleen Wilkinson mezzo-soprano - Glasha

Owen Webb baritone - Kuligin

Claire Hampton soprano - Feklusha

Sian Meinir mezzo-soprano - Zena

Philip Lloyd-Holtam tenor - Passer-by

Carlo Rizzi

11-15 December 2006