Janáček Káťa Kabanová Opera Holland Park, July 2009 Director Olivia Fuchs Lighting Colin Grenfell
The production was revived in July 2017
Reviews 2017
Reviews 2009
(Olivia Fuchs) and her resourceful designer, Yannis Thavoris, gave us a Katya pared down to its scenic essentials, both handsome to look at and symbolic of a fragmented, socially fragile world which eventually destroys the life of its protagonist. ... I applaud Fuchs and Thavoris for not encumbering Janacek’s masterpiece with heavy scenery. Their staging moved with cinematic fluidity... Any British company would have been proud of this Katya. (Opera magazine)