Opera in three acts (1921)
Music and libretto by Leoš Janáček
adapted from the play GROSA (the Storm)
by Alexander Nikolajewitsch Ostrowsky
translated by Vincenc Červinka
Performed in Czech with German surtitles

Premiere:
13 April 2008, at 7.30 p.m.
Performances:
15 / 17 / 20 / 22 & 24 April 2008

Cast

Conductor: Kirill Petrenko
Director: Keith Warner
Set and Costume designs: Kaspar Glarner
Lighting: Wolfgang Göbbel
Dikoj: Anatoli Kotscherga
Boris: Robert Brubaker
Kabanicha: Anja Silja
Tichon: Raymond Very
Katja: Melanie Diener
Kudrjaš: Johannes Chum
Varvara: Stella Grigorian
Kuligin: Gabriele Nani
Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg Chor (Chorus director: Erwin Ortner)