★★★★★
If there is a more compelling solo performance on the operatic stage this year than Amanda Majeski’s in the title role of Janacek’s opera, I will need a new stock of superlatives. I unhesitatingly say that you are unlikely to encounter a Katya more profoundly acted than by the American soprano, nor more strikingly sung. And with tickets still available for the run, you don’t even need to pay Viagogo prices to see her.
Her stature is willowy, but her vocal timbre is as rich, controlled and nuanced as Katya’s visions are wild and woolly. When she pleads for her drunkard husband, Tichon, to stay with her, throwing herself three times at his departing car — one of half a dozen unforgettable episodes in
