Katya Kabanova

Leos Janacek: Katya Kabanova

Concert performance: 6.30pm, Sunday 19 July 2026, St John’s Waterloo, London SE1 8TY

Don’t miss this chance to see New Palace Opera’s concert presentation of Leos Janacek’s ravishingly beautiful and tragic opera Katya Kabanova. The opera portrays a woman overwhelmed by family and social pressure, longing for love and freedom but stifled by her restrictive environment.

This story of one woman’s bid for escape from her suffocating community reflects the composer’s unrequited love for a woman resembling Katya herself. Janáček once wrote, “Katya’s suffering is my own,” bringing forth from the Czech composer a work of lacerating intensity, compelling tension and wondrous lyricism.

This concert performance will be sung in English.