Karita Mattila as the Kostelnička sang forcefully and movingly but at times was drawn into a brittle, almost cracked sound. Thomas Atkins as Števa Buryja was cocksure in his swaggering stage ...

American soprano Corinne Winters sings the title role excellently and acts the part superbly while Finnish soprano Karitas Mattila is even more striking as the Kostelnička, particularly in the ...

Trying intervals of large widths strained the instrument. Embodying the dire rationale behind the sextoness’s fatal flaw, soprano Karita Mattila delivered herself physically to Kostelnička. Atoning, ...

Powerful production suggests incoming music director Jakub Hrůša could well become the dominant interpreter of Janáček ...

Jenufa at the Royal Opera House review: symbolic, psychologically probing and more potent than ever - 4/5 This revival was Jakub Hrusa’s first production as Covent Garden’s music director designate – ...

The characters have depth and intensity, none more so than Karita Mattila’s well-nigh hysterical Kostelnička (Jenůfa’s foster mother), who has one particularly chilling, brutal scene.

Many of us remember the fine Jenufa which the great Finnish soprano Karita Mattila made 20 years ago; now she has gracefully aged-up to make a profoundly moving Kostelnicka. Meanwhile, the title ...