Leos Janácek - Kát'a Kabanová | movie | 2022 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Janáček's three-act opera Katya Kabanova, staged by Barrie Kosky and staged at the Felsenreitschule by Czech conductor | dG1fSFhBWFFxRGdTZ2s

Transcript

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.