20 de outubro de 2006

JENUFA

Murder most moving
Sex, lies, love and forgiveness: ENO plays up to the tragic tale of Jenufa, says Paul DriverThere are few operas so well calculated to be moving as Janacek’s Jenufa. With its utterly simple, heartbreaking story of sex before marriage and infanticide in a tight rural community, its flaringly dramatic roles for the mistreated Jenufa and her murderess stepmother, the Kostelnicka, its earthy Czech choruses, its chilling storm scene and, above all, its final scene, in which forgiveness and love triumph against terrible odds, the opera is overwhelming every time. And if calculation is a cold word, the musical intensity is consistently scalding. Though the work lives on the edge of melodrama, the pulse of life is in every bar. The orchestra surges as if it were the very medium of existence; the voices turn the most ordinary remarks into passionate utterances (typically repeated). Life’s banality is laid bare and shown to be beautiful.

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