Premiere of the the Leoš Janáček’s opera Jenůfa, directed and designed by Alvis Hermanis, at the Latvian National opera will take place on February 23.

The production premiered in 2014 at the Opéra La Monnaie in Brussels. The production was made in collaboration with Teatro Communale di Bologna. Alvis Hermanis's masterpiece by Leoš Janáček highlights the ethnographic splendor of the culture of the Central European region without losing the dramatic tension so characteristic of the drama of Jenůfa 's life in the play imbued with Moravian color. Jenůfa, based on Gabriela Preisova's drama Her Stepdaughter, is Czech composer Leoš Janáček's most famous opera. First performed in Brno in 1904, this will be the third production of Jenůfa at the Latvian National Opera.

The production team includes the Video Designer Ineta Sipunova, Choreographer Alla Sigalova, Costume Designer Anna Watkins and Lighting Designer Gleb Filshtinsky. At the Latvian National opera Jenůfa is staged by the Music Director and Conductor Mārtiņš Ozoliņš and Assitant Stage Director Marielle Kahn. The title role will be interpreted by Dana Bramane or Inna Kločko. Other cast: Eliška Weissová, Helena Zubanovich, Andris Ludvigs, Raimonds Bramanis, Artjoms Safronovs, Andris Kipļuks, among others.

This beautiful story of honor and dishonor, of love, crime, and forgiveness, reveals the terrible events in a Moravian village. Jenůfa is expecting a child from the irresponsible and drink-loving Števa. Števa's brother Laca also loves Jenůfa, but, in a fit of jealousy, with his affections not reciprocated, he mutilates Jenůfa 's face with a knife so that his brother would never look at it again. When Jenůfa confesses to the Kostelnička the relationship she has had with Števa, the stepmother does everything to hide the disgrace from the neighbors. In an effort to encourage Laca to marry Jenůfa, the Kostelnička secretly drowns Jenůfa 's newborn baby. Is it possible to forgive the unforgivable?

Tickets to opera Jenůfa are available at the box office of LNOB, as well as ONLINE.