Katya Kabanova

This month, the Florida Grand Opera broadens its repertoire with Leos Janácek’s ‘Katya Kabanova’. The Czech-born composer’s stormy marriage to a German girl half his age inspired this tragedy set in a small Russian town in the 1860s. Boris, a young man dependant on his overbearing uncle, falls in love with Katya, the wife of a local merchant. Following a moonlit assignation, however, Katya breaks down and confesses her indiscretion to her husband. Tormented by guilt, she then throws herself in the Volga River.