Word: jenufa
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...first time in the U. S., Jenufa, opera by Leos Janáćek, Czecho-Slovakian composer, was given at the Metropolitan. Grand were the persons of the cast; gorgeous the scenery; the music clever, racy, innocent of melody. In the title role was yellow-haired Maria Jeritza; Mmes. Margaret Matzenauer and Kathleen Howard and Messrs. Rudolf Laubenthal and Martin Ohman supported her. A grand house applauded. Critics commended. Plot. In a Moravian village lived Jenufa, the prettiest girl in the countryside, in whose grey glance lodged witchery. She was loved by Stewa, village stew, and by his brother Laca...
Madame Jeritza, in the title role, a picture of fresh, rustic loveliness, acted and sang with never-failing variety and vitality" (The New York World). According to The New York Times, her Jenufa is "undoubtedly one of her finest accomplishments." Janacek, the composer, and Jeritza are compatriots. Jeritza was born and brought up in Brünn, the little town in Czecho-Slovakia where Janáćek has spent the greater part of his life. She made her operatic debut in Olmütz, from there she went to the Vienna Volksopcr (People's Opera) and thence...
...Jenufa's stepmother, stealing hugger-mugger to the brook...
These include Debussy's magnum opus, Pelleas et Mélisande, in which Edward Johnson and Lucrezia Bori will probably be the principals. For Jeritza, there is also a German novelty, Jenufa, by Leos Janacek, Czecho-Slovakia. This opera, first heard in Prague in 1916, has since been performed in Vienna and Berlin...