Kátya Kabanová | Opera review

Coliseum, LondonThe latest instalment of English National Opera's Janácek cycle arrives from Dallas, where David Alden's production was conceived. Kátya Kabanová has all the Alden trademarks, with a stern avoidance of anything too naturalistic in Charles Edwards's sets and Jon Morrell's costumes – just enough to suggest that the action has been updated from the period of the Ostrovsky play on which it's based to the time when Janácek composed the opera, around 1920.By translat...

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