This production is recommended for ages 12+.
Performance Dates
22 March - 10 April 2027
Run time: 2hrs 15mins
Includes interval
Richard Jones’s intimate, stripped-back staging beautifully realises Janáček’s opera of yearning and destruction. Playing a strictly limited run at the Royal Ballet and Opera House, book your official tickets to Kata Kabanova today.
Trapped in a loveless marriage and suffocated by her controlling mother-in-law, young Kát’a finds herself swept into a passionate affair. But as forbidden love awakens new hope, guilt and longing threaten to overwhelm her in this moving tale of desire, repression and despair.
This production is sung in Czech with English surtitles, which are displayed on screens above the stage and around the auditorium. The production contains themes of a sexual nature and implied depictions of suicide, and is recomended for ages 12+.