Opera of the Week: Janáček’s Destiny on Saturday night live
OperaSlippedisc and OperaVision bring Robert Carsen’s award winning production of Destiny / Osud to its readers. The rarely seen opera will be streamed live from Brno on Saturday, 27 November 2021. Opening at the Janáček Brno Festival it comprises some of Janáček’s most powerful music, swaying from the peaks of romantic rapture to the depths of desperation and back again.
The Plot: A young woman in love with a composer is forced by her mother to take a rich suitor. When the two lovers are reunited years later, happiness is theirs for the taking, but a tragedy happens that changes everything.
Singers include Philip Sheffield, Enrico Casari, Alžběta Poláčková, Natascha Petrinsky, Peter Račko, Jan Šťáva.
The opera is sung in Czech. The live performance will be subtitled in English. French, German and Czech subtitles will be available soon afterwards
Available to watch this Saturday night at 19h00 CET 18.00 London and 13.00 NY. Available until 28.05.2022 .
By a gigantic margin, this is my favorite opera — hell, favorite anything — for all time. Someday I’ll be lucky enough to be within a reasonable distance of that rare production anywhere every few years, but for now, this is just wonderful.
Simon Rattle made a very good recording of “Ossud”, sung in English.