Jenůfa remains Janácek's most successful and most performed opera to this day, and the Berlin premiere at the Staatsoper in 1924 brought the work its final breakthrough on German stages. This performance from Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden is "artistically unsurpassable." There are three reasons for this. First: the cast [...], second: the direction [...], third: Simon Rattle, the Staatskapelle and the chorus of the Staatsoper" (BR-KLASSIK).