Janáček, Jenůfa

“Sometimes all that is needed is to match the right director with the right piece: Christof Loy and Janáček’s Jenufa are evidently just such a happy case, giving the Deutsche Oper Berlin the rare example of an opera production as intelligent as it is modern” (Opernglas). Jenufa, still Janáček’s most successful and most often performed opera, is a musical study of the social milieu. The psychologically precise role management of Christof Loy (“exemplary”, said the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) results in “a staging with an authentically tragic aura” (NY Times).