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- Two key factors set Janáček apart from other opera composers. He was preoccupied from the late 1880s with Moravian folk music, a particularly rich and distinctive resource in terms of mode and rhythm. This had the long-term effect of enriching and fertilising his musical language, though never obliterating its tonal roots.
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Czech composer Leoš Janáček is a unique musical voice with an uncanny ability to suggest mood with just a few notes, an understated but passionate lyricism, and an emotional charge to his operas as powerful as any in the 20th century.
His opera Destiny was a response to another significant and famous work in contemporary Bohemia – Louise, by the French composer Gustave Charpentier. [76] The influence of Giacomo Puccini is apparent particularly in Janáček's later works, for example in his opera Káťa Kabanová .
Jenůfa is an opera in three acts by the composer Leoš Janáček. First performed in 1904, Jenůfa is an opera of overwhelming emotion. Janáček’s powerful orchestration was influenced by traditional folk music, and his vocal melodies pay close attention to the rhythm and inflections of Czech speech.
Sep 19, 2013 · Placing the opera’s main character, also a famous singer and quintessential “femme fatale”, in the shoes of Marilyn Monroe adds a clever element to the opera’s context.
The successful Prague premiere (1916!) of “Jenufa” launched the 62-year-old Janácek into a compositional frenzy. He completed the sketched-out fifth opera “The Excursions of Mr Broucek” (1917) and set to work on new compositional projects with extraordinary creative fervour.
good opera composer is to study analytically the melodic curves and contours of human speech'. This was his religion; but of course there is far more in his music than keen observation and truthful declamation. Frequently in Jenufa, and intermittently in the later works, he indulges an almost Italian gift for soaring
