Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot
“Salzburg Festival 2024”
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.
Cast
Bogdan Volkov
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
Aušrinė Stundytė
Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova
Vladislav Sulimsky
Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
Iurii Samoilov
Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev
Clive Bayley
Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin
Margarita Nekrasova
Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina
Xenia Puskarz Thomas
Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina
Jessica Niles
Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina
Pavol Breslik
Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin
Daria Strulia
Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina
Jerzy Butryn
Afanassy Ivanovich Totsky
Alexander Kravets
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