Tonight was opening night for the opera I'm playing the next 2 weeks.
Jenůfa by the Czech composer Leos Janáček in a production with New Zealand Opera.
Very cool music. It sounds like a cross between puccini and georgian folk singing with bits of stravinsky and phantom of the opera.
Carl's plot ultra-concise plot summery:
Jenufa is in love with and is impregnated by a drunken womanizer who doesn't love her back. His brother 'Laca' DOES love Jenufa but it's not mutual - especially after he slashes her face with a knife in a fit of jealousy. She has the baby but her step mother drowns it secretly telling Jenufa it died in the night, all so that Laca will marry her (I guess Jenufa changed her mind about Laca?). All is well until the wedding when the body of the baby is spotted beneath the ice. After the town blames Jenufa for the murder her step-mother confesses. Before she's dragged off for punishment, Jenufa forgives her, then forgives Laca - and gets married. happily ever after.
Fortunately there's music too.
-Carl
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That's some pretty cool music you're getting to play over there.
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