Leos Janácek: Kát'a Kabanová

ISBN-13: 9780521298537 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 252 str.

John Tyrrell;Tyrrell

Opis

Kat'a Kabanova is both the first Janacek opera to have been performed in Britain and the one which has received the most productions in Britain and the USA. In this book John Tyrrell brings together letters, early reviews and other documents (most of them translated from Czech for the first time) on the opera's composition and its early performances. A group of key interpretations of the opera ranges from one by the opera's German translator and Janacek's first biographer Max Brod to specially commissioned essays by Wilfrid Mellers and by David Pountney, producer of the highly successful Welsh National Opera/Scottish Opera Janacek cycle."

Spis treści

1. Introduction John Tyrrell; 2. Ostrovsky's play 'The Thunderstorm' Cynthia Marsh; 3. The libretto John Tyrrell; 4. Synopsis: innocence and guilt in 'Kát'a Kabanová' Wilfrid Mellers; 5. Composition and the Brno and Prague premières: letters and reviews John Tyrrell; 6. Stage history and reception (i) general survey Svatava Pribáñová (ii) 'Kát'a Kabanová' in the United Kingdom Adrienne Simpson (iii) 'Kát'a Kabanová' in the USA Barbara Hampton Renton; 7. Textual problems (i) the interludes Theodora Straková (ii) orchestration problems and the revised edition Charles Mackerras (iii) Janácek and the viola d'amore John Tyrrell; 8. Interpretations (i) 'Kátja Kabanová' Max Brod (1924) (ii) les autres oeuvres dramatiques: 'Katia Kabanova' Daniel Muller (1930) (iii) Janácek and 'Katya Kabanova' Winton Dean (1954) (iv) Leos Janácek K.-H. Wörner (1969) (v) producing 'Kát'a Kabanová' David Pountney (1982); Notes; Productions of 'Kát'a Kabanova' Svatava Pribáñová; Sources; Bibliography; Discography Malcolm Walker.