Janáček: Jenufa

Michaela Kaune (Jenufa), Jennifer Larmore (Kostelnicka Buryjovka), Will Hartmann (Laca Klemen), Ladislav Elgr (Števa Buryja) & Hanna Schwarz (Grandmother Buryjovka)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles (conductor) & Christof Loy (stage director)

a fine ensemble performance with the intense dramatic interaction between characters excellently captured by the camera. Michaela Kaune's sweetly sung, beautifully observed characterisation of... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2015
Catalogue No: 109069
Label: Arthaus Musik

Janáček: Jenufa

Live Recording from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2014
Michaela Kaune (Jenufa), Jennifer Larmore (Kostelnicka Buryjovka), Will Hartmann (Laca Klemen), Ladislav Elgr (Števa Buryja) & Hanna Schwarz (Grandmother Buryjovka)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Donald Runnicles (conductor) & Christof Loy (stage director)

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Set Designer Dirk Becker

Costume Designer Judith Weihrauch

Jenufa, still Janácek’s most successful and most often performed opera, is a musical study of the social milieu. Christof Loy moves the action of Janácek’s drama, revolving around the strict sacristan (the Kostelnicka) who drowns her stepdaughter Jenufa’s illegitimate child for fear of gossip and concern for her future, to a bare white room in which the passage of the seasons is only hinted. It is the sacristan’s stark prison cell – where he recounts past events and takes the spectator into the story seen in retrospective.

Michaela Kaune sings the title role of Jenufa with warm soprano, her despair at her situation palpable at every moment, culminating finally in the discovery of her dead son. Jenufa’s stepmother is sung by American mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore, who delights with her great vocal expressivity and beauty. Musical Director Donald Runnicles conducts the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which perfectly balances the churning intensity and textural refinement.

Sound Formats: PCM Stereo, DD 5.0

Picture Format: 16:9

Audio Language: Czech

Subtitles: GB, DE, FR, ES, IT, KOR, CN

DVD 9 / NTSC

Running Time: 131 mins

FSK: 0

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October 2015

a fine ensemble performance with the intense dramatic interaction between characters excellently captured by the camera. Michaela Kaune's sweetly sung, beautifully observed characterisation of Jenufa is remarkable...But the palm, as often in this opera, goes to the Kostelnicka. Jennifer Larmore is superb both vocally and dramatically in the role...Runnicles as the measure of the work's ebb and flow.

August 2015

If you like dramaturgical solutions to an opera hinted at rather than spelt out in capitals, this revival of Christof Loy's 2012 Deutsche Oper production may please. The action is lightly moved into the 20th century, to around the time of the opera's premiere...Both Larmore and Michaela Kaune's older-looking than usual Jenufa give full-voiced, fluent readings of their roles.

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