Ladislav Elgr

Jenůfa - Staatsoper Unter Den Linden (2021)

The rigid morals of a village community put a young woman under pressure: Jenůfa is pregnant by her lover Števa, but he rejects her and retracts his offer of marriage. Once the child is born, Jenůfa's stepmother, the village sextoness, is worried about ...

From the House of the Dead (2017)

Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The House of the Dead, Leoš Janáček composed an opera filled with burning desire and longing. Contagious savagery, cruelty and brutality are exacerbated ...

The Bassarids - Theatro dell’Opera di Roma (2015)

The conflict between human rationality and emotional control, represented by the King of Thebes, Pentheus, and unbridled human passion, represented by the god Dionysus. ...

Janáček: Jenufa (2015)