The opening performance will be held on September 5, 2015 at the main stage of the Opera house. Altogether eight performances will take place, all of them during September. Libretto by Vincenc Cervinka will be sung  in the Czech language. Performances are usually shown with the Norwegian subtitles. Katya will be sung by Norwegian soprano Kari Postma and the Czech opera singer Pavel Cernoch will appear in six performances as Boris Grigoryevich.

Janacek's sixth opera is based on the The Storm, a drama by Russian playwriter A. N. Ostrovsky. It tells a story of a married woman who must cope with a world full of hypocrisy and rudeness. Katya is experiencing an internal duel between respectfulness, modesty and her desires. The opera was first performed in Brno in 1921 and is one of Janacek's tragic works. Tickets are already available on the website of the opera: http://operaen.no/Forestillinger/katja-kabanova/#sectionKjop.

Leoš Janáček (3 July 1854 – 12 August 1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and other Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style.

Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by contemporaries such as Antonín Dvořák.  His later, mature works incorporate his earlier studies of national folk music in a modern, highly original synthesis, first evident in the opera Jenůfa, which was premiered in 1904 in Brno.  

The success of Jenůfa (often called the "Moravian national opera") at Prague in 1916 gave Janáček access to the world's great opera stages. Janáček's later works are his most celebrated. They include operas such as Káťa Kubanová and The Cunning Little Vixen (which has been  performed in Bergen in 2013) , the Sinfonietta, the Glagolitic Mass, the rhapsody  Taras Bulba, two string quartets, and other chamber works. Along with Antonín Dvořák and Bedřich Smetana, he is considered one of the most important Czech composers.