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Corinne Winters will make her Paris Opera debut in Janacek’s “Kat’a Kabanova,” a role she is currently performing in the Czech Republic.
In an age of fast-paced change, the soprano Corinne Winters has forged an international career that defies the norm. Four years ago, she made headlines from the Salzburg Festival as the title character of Janacek’s “Kat’a Kabanova,” a 20th-century opera about a female protagonist who rebels against a conformist society.
Rather than catapult to a different role in a splashy new production, Winters decided to further develop her connection with the repertoire by learning to speak Czech. This season, she is appearing as Kat’a in three different productions.
“I’m one of those animals who loves to go deep,” she said in a video call from Brno, Czech Republic, where Janacek’s operas were first performed. “So I have a handful of roles that I do often. This way they evolve and grow.”
On Friday, at a biannual opera and music festival dedicated to Janacek in Brno, Winters is reprising a 2024 staging by Krzysztof Warlikowski in which Kat’a announces her suicide via live video. In January, at the Palais Garnier, she will make her Paris Opera debut in a revival production by Christoph Marthaler. She will then travel to London to sing the role at the Royal Opera in March.
“There’s something about the immediacy of Janacek that fits my sensibilities,” she said. “That’s how Czech rose to the top from the other Slavic languages. But I have Tchaikovsky coming up, and Polish repertoire.”
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