From the House of the Dead & Glagolitic Mass (2023)
Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian prison in the company of misfits, murderers and theives, Dostoevsky was inspired to write his novel Notes from a Dead House, telling his brother at the time: ‘Believe me, there were among them deep, strong, beautiful natures, and it often gave me great joy to find gold under a rough exterior.’ In Janáček’s hands, Dostoevsky’s inspiration and the raw material drawn from an appalling world of incarceration find an even more powerful form of expression in his last opera, From the House of the Dead. Unfettered by conventional story-telling, Janáček wrote his own libretto, freely weaving together a series of stories of everyday prison life and of the fates of individual convicts.
Director: Jakub Kořínek
https://operavision.eu/performance/house-dead-glagolitic-mass
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Gianluca Zampieri as Luka (Filka Morozov) |
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Roman Hoza as Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov |
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Jarmila Balážová as Aljeja / Young Tatar |
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Peter Berger as Skuratov |
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Pavol Kubáň as Šiškov |
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Jan Šťáva as Prison Governor |
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Zbigniew Malak as Tall Prisoner / Young Prisoner / Voice in Steppe / Prisoner 3 |
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Lukáš Bařák as Short Prisoner / Prisoner 1 / Blacksmith / Čekunov |
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Eduard Martynyuk as Šapkin / Drunk Prisoner / Cheerful Prisoner |
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Vít Nosek as Prisoner with the Eagle / Prisoner 2 / Kedril / Čerevin |
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Petr Levíček as Elderly Prisoner |
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Tadeáš Hoza as Prisoner A / Don Juan / The Brahmin |
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Josef Škarka as Priest |
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Kornél Mikecz as Cook |
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David Nykl as Prisoner B / Fierce Prisoner |
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Jana Hrochová as Prostitute |
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Vilém Cupák as Guard 1 |
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Michal Heriban as Eagle |
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Edita Antalová as Luisa |
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Eva Novotná as Aljeja's Mother |
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Kateřina Kněžíková as Akulina |
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Jakub Hrůša as Self – Conductor |
| Sound | Leoš Janáček | Original Music Composer |
| Directing | Jakub Kořínek | Director |
| Writing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Book |
| Writing | Leoš Janáček | Opera |
| Directing | Jiří Heřman | Stage Director |
| Lighting | Petr Kozumplík | Gaffer |
| Sound | Lukáš Nábělek | Sound Designer |
| Crew | Patricie Částková | Dramaturgy |
| Camera | Pavel Otevřel | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Aleš Dvořák | Sound Designer |
| Camera | Petr Vejslík | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Zuzana Štefunková Rusínová | Costume Design |
| Camera | Radek Mařík | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Jiří Kovář | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Linda Kubíková | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Petr Král | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Jiří Strnad | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Miloslav Dvořáček | Camera Operator |
| Sound | Tomáš Řezníček | Music Director |
| Camera | Ctibor Krčmář | Camera Operator |
| Production | Dorota Košťálová | Unit Production Manager |
| Production | Igor Chvála | Production Manager |
| Lighting | Jiří Heřman | Lighting Design |
| Crew | Jan Kodet | Choreographer |
| Art | Tomáš Rusín | Set Designer |
| Camera | Anna Babjarová | Camera Operator |
| Production | Martina Starová | Production Manager |
| Crew | Nora Obrtelová | Dramaturgy |
| Camera | Jan Horáček | Camera Operator |
| Editing | Pavel Stříbrný | Editor |
| Writing | Svatava Šenková | Creative Producer |
