The read
It runs long at 3h 17m.
Synopsis
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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Key crew
- Krzysztof WarlikowskiDirector
- Mieczysław WeinbergOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Bogdan VolkovPrince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
- Aušrinė StundytėNastasya Filippovna Barashkova
- Vladislav SulimskyParfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
- Iurii SamoilovLukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev
- Clive BayleyIvan Fyodorovich Yepanchin
- Margarita NekrasovaYelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina
- Xenia Puskarz ThomasAglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina
- Jessica NilesAlexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina
- Pavol BreslikGavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin
- Daria StruliaVarvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina
- Jerzy ButrynAfanassy Ivanovich Totsky
- Alexander KravetsKnife grinder