Charles Mackerras, born 100 years ago, had a vast and versatile repertoire. But he also left an indelible mark on the legacy of at least one composer. By David Allen Des Moines Metro Opera has become ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – How can an opera be so profoundly disturbing, yet so achingly beautiful? That was the conundrum after hearing Leoš Janáček’s Jenůfa at Severance Music Center on Saturday, in a ...

After Kátia Kabanová (2018) and The Makropulos Affair (2019), The Cunning Little Vixen is the third title by Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) that Santa Marcelina Cultura takes to the stage of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — This week’s Cleveland Orchestra programs were to have featured soprano Asmik Grigorian in Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs. But when Grigorian withdrew last week for personal ...

In May 1916 Czech composer Leos Janacek was preparing to go to a spa for some well-deserved R&R when he happened to read a group of anonymous poems published in a local newspaper. The verses told the ...

Czech Composer Leos Janacek was 40 when he started his masterpiece, the opera Jenufa. He was close to 50 when he finished the work and past 60 before he found an audience that could appreciate it. In ...

Leos Janacek's personal and powerful String Quartet No. 2 was inspired by the unrequited love he held for a much younger, married woman — and by... At age 63, Czech composer Leos Janacek began his ...

Tom Manoff has a review of a new CD of piano music by Leos Janacek, a Czech composer who lived and composed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It's called Leos Janacek, A Recollection. Janacek was ...

Czech composer Leos Janacek created a love duet for cello and piano and called it "Pohadka," or "Fairy Tale." And though Janacek was proud of his Czech heritage and based many of his works on folk ...