Pain and purity: Janáček's Jenůfa

By Charlotte Valori, 21 July 2016

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“a woman poised at the edge of happiness which is steadily and inexorably poisoned”

Reviewed at Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-Marsh on 16 July 2016

Janáček, Jenůfa

Longborough Festival Opera

Jonathan Lyness, Conductor

Richard Studer, Director, Set Designer

Lee Bisset, Jenůfa

Gaynor Keeble, Kostelnička

Maria Jagusz, Grandmother Buryjovka

Daniel Norman, Laca Klemeň

Andrew Rees, Števa Buryja

Elizabeth Karani, Jano

Mark Saberton, Stárek, Mill foreman

Laura Ruhi Vidal, Barena

Nazan Fikret, Karolka

Louise Mott, Mayor's wife

Alison Dunne, Pastuchyňa

Piotr Lempa, Mayor

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

Pain and purity: Janáček's Jenůfa at Longborough