Katya Kabanova is a lush, compelling three-act opera with an alluring backstory. The story is only creepy and misogynistic if you take it out of its early-20th-century context. Composer Leos Janacek ...

The towering late operas of Leos Janacek (1854-1928) have a capacity to thunder from the stage in ways that are hard to describe with language. But when performed with skill and conviction, works such ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. It has not, most certainly, penetrated the sensibility of Christopher Keene, the new general director of the New ...

The long drought is over. With next week's production of "Jenufa," and additional projects set for the next two seasons, the works of Leos Janacek, perhaps the most singularly moving legacy of 20th ...

How did Janacek, so profoundly rooted in his Czech homeland, produce music so universally appealing, and what was the spur to his final decade of unprecedented creative energy? Show more How did Leoš ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is about time. It took until the 1950s for Janacek’s operas to be accepted outside his home country (what ...

At age 63, Czech composer Leos Janacek began his most unusual writing project — a constant stream of more than 700 love letters written to a married woman 37 years his junior. It's remarkable, ...

Charles Mackerras, born 100 years ago, had a vast and versatile repertoire. But he also left an indelible mark on the legacy of at least one composer. By David Allen Des Moines Metro Opera has become ...

SAN DIEGO — As the operas of Janacek enter into the repertory, no self-respecting opera house dares ignore them. Saturday night at the Civic Theatre, San Diego Opera entered into the ranks of the self ...