Janáček's three-act opera Katya Kabanova, staged by Barrie Kosky and staged at the Felsenreitschule by Czech conductor | dG1fSFhBWFFxRGdTZ2s
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00:00Katja, I think, is one of the most extraordinary characters in opera.
00:15She is an extraordinary emotional volcano.
00:28Here is this woman who sometimes can't articulate what the problem is.
00:32She is someone who can sometimes express an image.
00:35The dreams she has, the desires she has, the fears she has, the anxieties, but it's so
00:41amazingly human for Janáček to make her so ambiguous.
00:48All we know is that she has this energy and vibrancy in her which is being stifled by
00:54her family and the town.
00:57Even when she has the opportunity and she falls in love with this other man outside
01:01her marriage, this relationship is so unlike any other.
01:05This is not a romantic love.
01:07This is a sort of sexual energy which then transforms into a need that they both have
01:11for something else and what they have.
01:14But it's very unsentimental and therefore very real because it's full of unanswered
01:19threads and unexplained motives and moments and fragments of perception and clarity which
01:29then becomes unclear and moves on to the next things.