Mattila delivers powerful Kostelnička in Jenůfa

By Mark Pullinger, 19 April 2016

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“Mattila’s Kostelnička is not a monster, but a woman driven to do a monstrous deed”

Reviewed at Royal Festival Hall, London on 18 April 2016

Janáček, Jenůfa

Jiří Bělohlávek, Conductor

Marta Reichelová, Jano

Adriana Kohútková, Jenůfa

Lucie Silkenová, Karolka

Karita Mattila, Kostelnička

Jana Hrochová, Mayor's wife

Kateřina Jalovcová, Pastuchyňa

Yvona Škvárová, Grandmother Buryjovka

Aleš Briscein, Laca Klemeň

Jaroslav Březina, Števa Buryja

Svatopluk Sem, Stárek, Mill foreman

Luděk Vele, Mayor

Czech Philharmonic

Lukáš Vasilek, Choirmaster / chorus director

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Mattila delivers powerful Kostelnička in Czech Phil's Jenůfa