From the House of the Dead (2017)
Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The House of the Dead, Leoš Janáček composed an opera filled with burning desire and longing. Contagious savagery, cruelty and brutality are exacerbated by the confines of the prison. However, within its concrete walls emerge both tenderness and cruelty at the sight of an injured bird; a multitude of stories and highly personal monologues. With this production, first performed at the Wiener Festwochen in 2007, the Paris Opera pays tribute to Patrice Chéreau.
https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/season-17-18/opera/de-la-maison-des-morts
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Willard White as Alexandre Petrovitch Goriantchikov |
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Eric Stoklossa as Alieïa |
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Štefan Margita as Filka Morosov |
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Ladislav Elgr as Skuratov |
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Peter Mattei as Šiškov |
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Esa-Pekka Salonen as Self - Conductor |
| Sound | Leoš Janáček | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Original Story |
| Writing | Leoš Janáček | Writer |
