Various - Leo� Jan�cek: Jenufa

Jenufa is still Jan�cek�s most successful and most often performed opera, and the Berlin premiere at the Staatsoper in 1924 brought the work its final breakthrough on German stages. This performance from Berlin�s Staatsoper Unter den Linden is 'artistically unsurpassable. There are three reasons for this. Firstly, the cast [...], secondly: the direction [...], thirdly: Simon Rattle, the Staatskapelle and the chorus of the Staatsoper' (BR Klassik). 'Simon Rattle revs up the Staatskapelle Berlin with a passion as if he had to fill a melodrama by Giacomo Puccini with bursting sound life' (S�ddeutsche Zeitung). 'A beguiling mixture of speaking articulation and tonal roundness.' (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)