JENUFA

Run Dates

2027.05.08 ~ 2027.05.22

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Premiere

About the show

Jenůfa, by Leoš Janáček, floods the Liceu with overwhelming emotional power in Àlex Ollé’s new and exceptional production, with the ever-revealing conducting of Jonathan Nott and a luxury cast led by Asmik Grigorian and Nina Stemme. Inspired by the harshness of rural life and the stern morality of a closed community, Jenůfa becomes a modern passion in which the sacred and the sacrilegious intertwine in an unsettling dance of devastating consequences. At the heart of the drama beat two female figures in constant tension: Jenůfa, wounded by love and shame, and the Kostelnička, her stepmother, both moral beacon and author of a crime that changes everything. Jenůfa embodies profaned innocence that, despite the pain, remains sacred; The Kostelnička, on the other hand, represents the paroxysm of a law without compassion: the strict voice of community and religion.

Details

by Leoš Janáček STAGE DIRECTION Àlex Ollé SET DESIGN Alfons Flores/Mar Flores COSTUME DESIGN Lluc Castells LIGHTING DESIGN Urs Schönebaum PRODUCTION Gran Teatre del Liceu co-production with Teatro Real & ABAO Bilbao Opera CHOIR OF THE GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU Director Pablo Assante SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA GRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU Conductor Jonathan Nott CAST GRANDMOTHER BURYJOVKA Marta Infante LACA KLEMEN Pavel Černoch ŠTEVA BURYJA James Ley KOSTELNIČKA BURYJOVKA Nina Stemme JENŮFA Asmik Grigorian THE MILL FOREMAN Guillem Batllori 8, 14 & 20 May Nojus Zalys 11, 16 & 22 May THE MAYOR Christopher Robertson THE MAYOR’S WIFE Laura Vila KAROLKA Rosa Maria Abella A SHEPHERDESS Olga Szabo A SHEPHERDESS Mariel Aguilar BARENA Alexandra Zabala BARENA Mariel Fontes JANO Ruth González AUNT Elisabeth Gillming Cristina Tena VOICE 1 Raquel Lucena Helena Zaborowska VOICE 2 Dimitar Darlev Alessandro Vandin

Where it's been performed

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Barcelona

Spain

Barcelona

Spain

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