In May 1916 Czech composer Leos Janacek was preparing to go to a spa for some well-deserved R&R when he happened to read a group of anonymous poems published in a local newspaper. The verses told the ...
Des Moines Metro Opera has become one of the country’s most successful smaller companies doing adventurous repertory in a 467-seat space. By Zachary Woolfe I love the operas of Leos Janacek. So do ...
He's a composer known mostly for his operas. Leos Janacek wrote more than opera, though. He wrote string quartets and piano music, too. Leos Janacek is the inspiration behind this week's Piano Puzzler ...
He developed the Vixen story out of his interest in a serialised ­illustrated newspaper story, the rights to which he acquired from the surprised author before ­preparing his own libretto. Like many ...
After Kátia Kabanová (2018) and The Makropulos Affair (2019), The Cunning Little Vixen is the third title by Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) that Santa Marcelina Cultura takes to the stage of ...
Romance gone bad lay at the heart of two operas — each part of a summer festival — one performed in Manhattan, the other upstate at Bard College. The Bard event, the first American staging of Leos ...
Charles Mackerras, 84, the maverick Australian conductor whose interests led him across the spectrum of opera, pioneering in areas as far removed as period-instruments performance and the works of ...
TORONTO -- The Canadian Opera's new production of Janacek's 1928 "From the House of the Dead" is a smashing success as an example of devastatingly dramatic music theater. The production is dedicated ...
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We join the Polish Radio Symphony and conductor Gabriel Chmura for "The Cunning Little Vixen," a concert suite culled from the music Leos Janacek wrote for an opera of the same name.