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JENUFA, Vienna State Opera, 23 October 2022 - 19:00

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  • Category: Operas
  • Event: JENUFA
  • Date/Time: 23 October 2022 - 19:00
  • Venue: Vienna State Opera
  • Address: Opernring 2, 1010 Wien / Vienna (Map)
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Jenůfa waits fearfully to learn whether Števa, the man she loves and whose child she is secretly carrying, will be drafted into the army or not. If he is he would not be able to marry her, the child would have no father and she could only avoid the disgrace by killing herself. But Števa is not conscripted, and returns, dancing, to the village with some of the other recruits. The celebrations are interrupted by the churchwarden’s widow, Jenůfa’s stepmother. She presents the drunk Števa with an ultimatum: before he marries Jenůfa he must stay sober for a year. That Števa will now stay in the village greatly annoys Laca who has long been in love with Jenůfa, although she treats him with nothing but contempt. When the two of them are alone his jealousy erupts and he cuts her cheek with a knife. Six months later – it is winter – Jenůfa has secretly given birth to her child. While she is sleeping, the churchwarden’s widow fetches Števa into the house and demands that he take responsibility for Jenůfa and his child. But that role does not interest him at all and besides, since Laca disfigured her he finds Jenůfa’s appearance revolting. All he can do is give her some money for the child. And anyway he is now engaged to Karolka, the mayor’s daughter. No sooner has Števa left the house than Laca arrives. He still wants Jenůfa, but Števa’s child is a problem, so the churchwarden’s widow decides to tell a lie: she says the child is dead. Fearing that the child will ruin Jenůfa’s prospects, the widow turns the lie into the truth and drowns the newborn. She tells Jenůfa that the child died while she was in her sickbed with a fever. When she sees the gentle way that Laca consoles her she tries to tell herself that she has done the right thing. But she shows increasing signs that her crime is troubling her… It is spring, and the wedding of Jenůfa and Laca is about to take place. The widow, though, is on the point of a nervous breakdown. Števa and Karolka have arrived and the girls of the village sing a wedding song. Suddenly, screams ring out: the melting ice has exposed the baby’s dead body. Jenůfa recognises it as hers and is suspected of murder. The widow, however, confesses her guilt and explains her motive. Jenůfa forgives her.

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