Jenůfa Staatsoper Unter Den Linden

The rigid morals of a village community put a young woman under pressure Jenůfa is pregnant by her lover Števa but he rejects her and retracts his offer of marriage Once the child is born Jenůfas stepmother the village sextoness is worried about the young womans reputation as well as her own future When Laca another marriage suitor offers Jenůfa his hand in marriage the sextoness thinks that life would be better for all of them without the child