Kat'a Kabanova

A leading expert on Czech vocal music, Timothy Cheek is pianist, vocal coach, and professor of performing arts at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater & Dance in Ann Arbor. He is the author of Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire (2001), The Janácek Opera Libretti, volumes I (2003), II (2004) and III (2016), The Bartered Bride, Prodaná nevesta: Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation (2010), and Rusalka: A Performance Guide with Translations and Pronunciation (2012), published by Scarecrow Press and Rowman & Littlefield.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 IntroductionChapter 4 1. Act IChapter 5 2. Act IIChapter 6 3. Act IIIChapter 7 Appendix AChapter 8 Appendix BChapter 9 References and Other SourcesChapter 10 IndexChapter 11 About the Author

Timothy Cheek succeeds brilliantly in giving his readers an exciting and richly detailed overview of how this Russian heroine came to life. I especially love the way he traces the musical love motive, illuminating its many transformations throughout the opera. The meat of this book is in the painstaking rendering of the Czech text into four rivers of information: the original text, the IPA pronunciation guide, the literal word-by-word translation, and the idiomatic rendition. Come journey through these rivers with Kát'a and be seduced!