Review of Jenufa by Leos Janacek performed by the Welsh National Opera on April 5th at Plymouth’s Theatre Royal.
By any standards Janacek’s opera, Jenufa is an extraordinary piece of work, visceral and devastating but seeing and listening to it at this time, with Russia invading Ukraine, gave it an added poignancy. This was something Tomas Hanus, the Welsh National Opera’s Music Director, felt so strongly that he gave a short talk before the …