Page 146 - Guildhall Coverage Book 2020-21
P. 146
the arts desk
21 May 2021
reviews, news & interviews
Káťa Kabanová, Glyndebourne review
- a misalliance of metatheatre and the
mundane
Singing, playing and conducting urge emotion, production shuts it
down
by David Nice
Feathers from heaven: Kateřina Kněžíková as Káťa KabanováAll images by Richard Hubert Smith
Angels and birds throng the inner life of tragic heroine Katya Kabanova, very much
centre-stage in Nikolay Ostrovsky’s The Storm and achingly so in Janáček’s musical
portrait. Director Damiano Michieletto takes the feathers, adds cages and
claustrophobic white walls, and makes the symbolism the thing.
