The opera reveals itself as a spiritual tragedy where compassion overcomes dogma and grace is born from despair

“No greater love exists than that which is offered to shame to save another’s soul”

Dostoievski

Jenůfa, by Leoš Janáček, floods the Liceu with overwhelming emotional power in Àlex Ollé’s new and exceptional production, with the ever-revealing conducting of Jonathan Nott and a luxury cast led by Asmik Grigorian and Nina Stemme.

Inspired by the harshness of rural life and the stern morality of a closed community, Jenůfa becomes a modern passion in which the sacred and the sacrilegious intertwine in an unsettling dance of devastating consequences.

At the heart of the drama beat two female figures in constant tension: Jenůfa, wounded by love and shame, and the Kostelnička, her stepmother, both moral beacon and author of a crime that changes everything. Jenůfa embodies profaned innocence that, despite the pain, remains sacred; The Kostelnička, on the other hand, represents the paroxysm of a law without compassion: the strict voice of community and religion.

• Grandmother Buryjovka: Marta Infante

• Laca Klemeň: Pavel Černoch

• Števa Buryja: James Ley

• Kostelnička Buryjovka: Nina Stemme

• Jenůfa: Asmik Grigorian

• The mill foreman: Guillem Batllori (May 8, 14, 20) / Nojus Zalys (May 11, 16, 22)

• The mayor: Christopher Robertson

• The mayor's wife: Laura Vila

• Karolka: Rosa Maria Abella

• A shepherdess: Olga Szabo / Mariel Aguilar

• Barena: Alexandra Zabala / Mariel Fontes

• Jano: Ruth González

• Aunt: Elisabeth Gillming / Cristina Tena

• Voice 1: Raquel Lucena / Helena Zaborowska

• Voice 2: Dimitar Darlev / Alessandro Vandin [1]