Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot (2024)
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla continues her high-profile championship of the works of the composer Mieczysław Weinberg with this new Salzburg Festival production of his final opera, The Idiot, with a libretto based on Dostoevsky’s great novel of innocence destroyed by corrupt society. Featuring music of great power and intensity, the opera, completed in 1985, showcases Weinberg’s remarkable skill as a musical dramatist, while this new production by Krzysztof Warlikowski promises to mark a watershed in its brief performance history.
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Cast
- Bogdan Volkov — Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
- Aušrinė Stundytė — Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova
- Vladislav Sulimsky — Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
- Iurii Samoilov — Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev
- Clive Bayley — Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin
- Margarita Nekrasova — Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina
- Xenia Puskarz Thomas — Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina
- Jessica Niles — Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina
- Pavol Breslik — Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin
- Daria Strulia — Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina
- Jerzy Butryn — Afanassy Ivanovich Totsky
- Alexander Kravets — Knife grinder
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