When Lusting for a Young Woman Doesn't Work, Write an Opera

When Lusting for a Young Woman Doesn't Work, Write an Operaby Trisha ReadyKatya Kabanova is a lush, compelling three-act opera with an alluring backstory. The story is only creepy and misogynistic if you take it out of its early-20th-century context.Composer Leos Janacek was a late bloomer who arrived at fame in his 60s, around the same time he fell in love with Kamila Stosslova, an unattainable woman, 38 years younger than Janacek. He wrote her 700 love letters over a span of 11 years and compo