Kátya Kabanová 2010Scottish Opera-Go-Round
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Scottish Opera's 2009/10 season contained four full main-stage productions plus one small-scall-tour. The two works the company had never touched before were the young Rossini's frothy Italian Girl in Algiers and Leoš Janáček'a Adventures of Mr Brouček. The two revivals were an ultra-traditional Elisir d'amore and an ultra-modern Bohème. There was also a piano-accompanied tour of a second Janáček piece, Kátya Kabanová.
There were some additional elements, however, including a third programme of new short chamber pieces under the 5:15 umbrella. There was also a 'Scenes & Arias' tour by four young singers and a pianist, the old Essential Scottish Opera format now revised as Opera Highlights. There was a new 'Interactive Opera for 3 to 6 Year Olds', entitled Auntie Janet Saves The Planet. Two well-contrasted co-productions also featured. Music Theatre Wales brought a new chamber piece by Eleanor Alberga, Letters of a Love Betrayed, while the RSAMD joined forces with the orchestra and technical staff of Scottish Opera to mount the Scottish premiere of Prokofiev's wonderful Tolstoy adaptation War and Peace.
A final batch of performances of Scottish Opera's third staging of a Janáček work for its small-scale piano-accompanied tours.
Performance Cast
- Váňa Kudrjaš a school teacher
- Glaša an old servant
- Savel Prokofievich Dikoj a merchant
- Boris Grigorievich Dikoj's nephew
- Marfa Ignatyevna Kabanová a merchant's widow, called Kabanicha
- Tikhon Ivanovich Kabanov Kabanicha's son
- Káterina Kabanová known as Katya, Tikhon's wife
- Varvara foster-child in the Kabanov household
- Kuligin a friend of Vána