Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot

Release Date: 2024-08-23

Overview: 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

as Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin

Aušrinė Stundytė

as Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova

Vladislav Sulimsky

as Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin

Iurii Samoilov

as Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev

Clive Bayley

as Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin