There were two compelling reasons for catching this revival of Claus Guth’s 2021 production of Janacek’s Jenufa. The first was to hear Jakub Hrusa, in his first production as Covent Garden’s music director designate.
The second was to hear the new Jenufa, the American soprano Corinne Winters, though she is not new to London audiences – she has sung Puccini and Dvorak at ENO, Mozart and Verdi at Covent Garden – nor to Janacek (two years ago she sang Katya Kabanova with Hrusa himself at Salzburg).
