Leos Janacek: Kata Kabanova

By John Tyrrell

Book Overview

K t'a Kabanov is both the first Jan cek opera to have been performed in Britain and the one which has received the most productions in Britain and the USA. In this book John Tyrrell brings together letters, early reviews and other documents (most of them translated from Czech for the first time) on the opera's composition and its early performances. A group of key interpretations of the opera ranges from one by the opera's German translator and Jan cek's first biographer Max Brod to specially commissioned essays by Wilfrid Mellers and by David Pountney, producer of the highly successful Welsh National Opera/Scottish Opera Jan cek cycle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521298539
• ISBN13: 9780521298537
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"