Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic in a performance of Leoš Janáček’s (1854-1928) opera Jenůfa, recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1989 in a staging by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. Jenůfa is a tale of passion, betrayal, and the transfiguring power of love. The embittered widow, Kostelnička, drowns her infant grandson to save her beloved stepdaughter Jenůfa from the shame and hardship...
