Damiano Michieletto’s new staging of Jenůfa – intended
originally as part of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden’s ongoing Janáček cycle
in collaboration with Sir Simon Rattle – was one of the many productions
sidelined during the Covid pandemic. Although it had its première in February
of 2021, performed to an empty house and streamed online, it would have to wait
another year before its debut in front of an audience. With a slightly altered
cast and musical direction taken over by Thomas Guggeis, the first public
performance was a triumph, placing considerable vocal riches in the service of
a thoroughly engrossing drama.
Mr Michieletto’s excellent staging was something of a
rarity in that it seemed wholly at ease within the symbolic logic of its
presiding concept. The action was set in a large cube-shaped space, slightly
offset from the…
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