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NEW YORK (AP) - Only rarely does one find a pair of singing actors as compelling as Karita Mattila and Anja Silja on the same opera stage.
Appearing Monday night at the Metropolitan Opera in a revival of Olivier Tambosi's dull 2003 production of Janacek's "Jenufa," they turned the story of Moravian peasants into a riveting evening of dramatic intensity.
Mattila also triumphed in the title role when the production was new four years ago. Silja, a 66-year-old German soprano, took over from Deborah Polaski as Jenufa's stepmother, the Kostelnicka, and gave a more nuanced, more gripping performance in her first appearance at the Met since 1993.
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