Jenufa

Director, conductor, musicians and singers surpassed themselves. For Swaim, who was producing his first opera, it was a singular triumph.

Swaim’s direction is dense and intensive, without sentimentality yet full of feeling for the characters … a solid, honest unspectacular, strong and much applauded opening of this years Salzburg festival.

Considered and successful opening of the Salzburg Festival. Bob Swaim… tells the story of Jenufa with tenderness and care…

Swaim’s… discrepancy between music and stage, between seduction and cool distance is responsible for the quality of his direction.

… une réussite musicale et théâtrale.

Il festival di Salisburgo si apre con la magnific rappresentatazione di “Jenufa” de Bob Swaim.

Transcending melodrama, Jenufa is extraordinary for the indivisibility of its two components : music and dead-on theatre.