Leoš Janáček: Káťa Kabanová
compiled by John Tyrrell
(Cambridge Opera Handbooks)
Cambridge University Press, 1982
xvi, 234 pp.
ISBN 0521 29853 9 (paper)

1. Introduction, by John Tyrrell
2. Ostrovsky's play The Thunderstorm, by Cynthia Marsh
3. The Libretto, by John Tyrrell
4. Synopsis: innocence and guilt in Káťa Kabanová, by Wilfred Mellers
5. Composition and the Brno and Prague premières: letters and reviews, by John Tyrrell
6. Stage history and reception

   General survey, by Svatava Přibáňová

   Káťa Kabanová in the United Kingdom, by Adrienne Simpson

   Káťa Kabanová in the USA, by Barbara Hampton Renton

7. Textual problems
   The interludes, by Theodora Straková
   Orchestration problems and the revised edition, by Charles Mackerras
   Janáček and the viola d'amore, by John Tyrrell
8. Interpretations

   Katja Kabanowa, by Max Brod (1924)

   Katia Kabanova, by Daniel Muller (1930)

   Janáček and Katya Kabanova, by Winton Dean (1930)

   Leoš Janáček, by K.-H Wörner (1969)

   Producing Káťa Kabanová, by David Pountney (1982)

   Productions of Káťa Kabanová, compiled by Svatava Přibáňová
   Sources, Bibliography, Discography, Index, Many illustrations