Concert | Berlin-based Orchestras
The performance of the concert version of Leoš Janáček‘s magnificent Opera “Jenufa” by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Sir Simon Rattle together with a brilliant singing ensemble will represent the highlight within the Slavic focus of Musikfest Berlin. The opera “of Moravian peasant life” was composed in 1904 and based on a socio-critical drama highly topical and frequently played at the time. Janácek’s impassioned music transforms the personal story of a sextoness who kills the illegitimate child of her foster daughter Jenufa into a timeless and deeply moving tragedy.
Leoš Janáček
Jenůfa (Její Pastorkyňa, Her Stepdaughter)
Opera in three acts
Based on a drama from the Moravian farming life by Gabriela Preissová
Brno version (1908) edited by Sir Charles Mackerras and John Tyrrell
Concert performance in Czech
German surtitles: Lothar Nickel
Interval after act one
Anna Barová – Starenka Buryjovka
Stefan Margita – Laca Klemen
Kurt Streit – Števa Buryja
Deborah Polaski – Kostelnicka Buryjovka
Karita Mattila – Jenufa
Detlef Roth – Stárek / Rychtár
Katja Pieweck – Rychtárka
Martina Janková – Karolka / Barena
Mojca Erdmann – Jano
Monika Degenhardt – Pastuchyna / Tetka
Isabelle Vosskühler* – 1st Hlas
Jörg Schneider* – 2nd Hlas
* Mitglieder des Rundfunkchors Berlin
Vesnicky lid, Rekruti, Chasa, Devcata recruits, servants, girls, villagers, musicians
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Simon Halsey – choir director
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle – conductor