Janacek: Jenufa (complete opera recorded in 1989)

G - Regular 4:3 - PCM Stereo 2.0 - Colour - 118 Minutes - NTSC

Please note this is a Zone 1 DVD - playable only on multi zone players.

"State-of-the-art filming of a state-of-the-art production, cunningly cast and passionately played and conducted...hugely recommended."
- International Record Review Dec 2001

"The indoor scenes gain a natural, sometimes claustrophobic, intimacy, well captured in Derek Bailey's direction. The performers display the same naturalness - Roberta Alexander's heroine, sung with a warmth and fervour which exactly captures Jenufa's open and loving nature. The camera makes Lagridge a rathe rmature Laca but his sinewy tenor adn twisted, hungry demeanour render teh charactre's distorting jealousy and inner decency equally credible and sympathetic."
- Gramophone (Michael Scott Rohan) November, 2001

Includes.:
-Arthaus Musik trailer

An opera in three acts

Text by the composer founded on a story by Gabriela Prissova

Roberta Alexander
Anja Silja
Philip Langridge
Mark Baker
Menai Davies

The Glyndebourne Chorus
Chorus master - Ivor Bolton
The London Philhamonic Orchestra
Leader - David Nolan
Conductor - Andrew Davis

The acclaimed collaboration between director Nikolaus Lehnhoff and conductor Andrew Davis once more ensures great success in this new production from the 1989 Glyndebourne festival's Janacek cycle. Tobias Hoheisel was on hand once more as stage designer, creating excitingly expressive and colourful sets. "Expressive focus and visual heightening came to culmination in a faultless ensemble that tackled every requirement with a will, producing an astonishing Slavic timbre and, in the central roles, revealing a capacity for characterisation wholly unique to Janacek. Both Anja Silja and an incomparable Roberta Alexander in the title role held us spellbound. Philip Langridge (Laca) and Mark Baker (Steva), whose European debut will hopefully lead to invitations from the larger German opera houses, were no less impressive than the two ladies." (H. Thomas Wohlfahrt, Das Opernglas). Glyndebourne's new musical director, Andrew Davis, conducted this most recent adaptation of Jenufa, arranged by Charles Mackerras and John Tyrell.