"Editor's choice: Conducted by Jakub Hrusa, Barrie Kosky's modern-dress staging of 'Katya Kabanova' caused a considerable stir in Salzburg last year. An angry, occasionally wayward interpretation of Janacek's masterpiece, it was considered by some as very much the festival's high point, while Corinne Winters's performance in the title-role was widely regarded as fulfilling the potential many had observed in her work over the years, thereby marking her emergence as an artist of genuine greatness ... Winters is utterly remarkable throughout, words and gestures always telling, emotions barely contained within a steady stream of glorious tone ... Hrusa is wonderful in this work, superbly judging its mixture of lyricism and tension ... Despite Kosky's occasional idiosyncrasies, this is musically overwhelming. You really do need to hear it".
