Over the last several decades, the landmark operas of Leos Janacek have been emerging from the fringes of the repertory and winning deserved favor with mainstream audiences. The Metropolitan Opera ...

When operas first appeared about 400 years ago, they tended to be based on great stories of the Western tradition — mythological tales and historical legends. The first great opera ever composed, ...

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 ...

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 ...

What you need to knowA new production of Leos Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen has opened at Garsington Opera, at Wormsley, Buckinghamshire. Daniel Slater directs Czech composer Janacek's 1924 comic ...

Before fantasy films made it commonplace to find human and animal characters mingling freely, there was a curious, endearing opera from 1924 by Janacek. Best known in English as The Cunning Little ...

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 ...

Ekaterina Popova as Emilia Marty performs in a scene from Leos Janacek's opera The Makropulos Affair . The opera is staged by director Graham Vick at the Mariinsky Theater. Ekaterina Popova as Emilia ...

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 ...

In Act Two, the Vixen (soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian) encounters a handsome, male Fox (soprano Lauren Curnow) who clearly finds her striking. At first she's cautious, but as their duet ends the two make ...