![]() ![]() Laca, in love with Jenůfa, expresses bitterness against his half-brother's favored position at home. Jenůfa, in love with Števa and secretly pregnant with his child, worries that he may have been drafted into the army. Jenůfa, Laca, and Grandmother Buryja wait for Števa to return home. Custom dictates that only Števa, the elder son's child by his second marriage, will inherit the mill, leaving his half-brother Laca and cousin Jenůfa to earn their livings. Their wives have also died, except for the Kostelnička (widow of the churchwarden), the younger son's second wife and Jenůfa's stepmother. Before the opera begins, the mill-owner Grandmother Buryja's two sons have both married twice, fathered children, and died. The plot depends on a tangled set of village relationships. Synopsis Place: A Moravian village Time: the nineteenth century 1903), as he did his choral composition the Elegy on the Death of Daughter Olga.Ĭhorus: Recruits, servants, girls, villagers, musicians The composer dedicated the work to the memory of his daughter Olga (d. It is now performed as a concert piece under the title Žárlivost ( Jealousy), JW 6/10. It was partly based on a song called Žárlivec ( The jealous man). Janáček wrote an overture to the opera, but decided not to use it. More than 70 years passed before audiences again heard it in Janáček's original version. ![]() Thus altered, it was well-received, first in Prague, and particularly after its Vienna première also worldwide. While today it is heard in the composer's original version, Jenůfa's early popularity was due to a revised version by Karel Kovařovic, altering what was considered its eccentric style and orchestration. Like the playwright's original work, it is known for its unsentimental realism. ![]() The first of Janáček's operas in which his distinctive voice can clearly be heard, it is a grim story of infanticide and redemption. Composed between 18, it is among the first operas written in prose. It was first performed at the National Theatre, Brno on 21 January 1904. Její pastorkyňa ( Her Stepdaughter commonly known as Jenůfa ( listen)) is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by the composer, based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriela Preissová. ![]()
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