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.
Director: Krzysztof Warlikowski
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Bogdan Volkov as Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin |
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Aušrinė Stundytė as Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova |
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Vladislav Sulimsky as Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin |
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Iurii Samoilov as Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev |
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Clive Bayley as Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin |
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Margarita Nekrasova as Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina |
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Xenia Puskarz Thomas as Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina |
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Jessica Niles as Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina |
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Pavol Breslik as Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin |
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Daria Strulia as Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina |
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Jerzy Butryn as Afanassy Ivanovich Totsky |
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Alexander Kravets as Knife grinder |
| Sound | Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla | Conductor |
| Directing | Krzysztof Warlikowski | Director |
| Art | Małgorzata Szczęśniak | Set Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Małgorzata Szczęśniak | Costume Design |
| Lighting | Felice Ross | Lighting Design |
| Crew | Claude Bardouil | Choreographer |
| Crew | Christian Longchamp | Dramaturgy |
| Sound | Mieczysław Weinberg | Original Music Composer |
