‘The Diary of One Who Disappeared’ review, Linbury Theatre: Belgian director Ivo van Hove develops Leoš Janáček’s drama
Published on: Wednesday 05 June 2019
Leoš Janáček’s unrequited 11-year infatuation with Kamila Stösslova – 37 years younger and happily married – gave rise to two of his greatest operas, and to a song cycle that had its own strange genesis. Janacek happened to read some short poems, collectively titled From the Pen of a Self-taught Peasant and published anonymously in a Brno daily paper, to which he himself was a
