深入探索灵魂,充满温暖人性——观英国皇家歌剧院《耶努法》

In-depth exploration of the soul, full of warm humanity——On the Royal Opera House’s new production of Jen?fa

捷克作曲家莱奥什·雅纳切克(Leo? Janá?ek)的第一部歌剧《耶努法》(Jen?fa),是他根据捷克女作家和戏剧家加布里埃拉·普莱索娃(Gabriela Preissová)的戏剧《她的继女》(Jejípastorkyňa)改编的三幕歌剧。歌剧创作于1896年至1902年之间,1904年1月21日首演于布尔诺国家剧院(Brno National Theatre)。

The Royal Opera House’s first new production of Leo? Janá?ek’s Jen?fa in over 20 years was one of the first casualties of the 2020 lockdown, shelved on the cusp of opening that March. A starry cast had made it an especially hot ticket, especially given the involvement of imaginative German director Claus Guth, now(with a couple of exceptions) they are reunited for a psychologically incisive and richly-sung realization of this emotionally searing work. The libretto is the composer’s own, based on Gabriel Preissova’s Její pastorkyňa, a story of Moravian infanticide and weak, hypocritical men—exactly the kind of acidic satire Janá?ek found himself drawn to repeatedly.