Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot

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.

• Krzysztof WarlikowskiDirector
• Mieczysław WeinbergOriginal Music Composer

• 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