Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot (2024)

Salzburg Festival 2024

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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Bogdan Volkov

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin

A

Aušrinė Stundytė

Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova

V

Vladislav Sulimsky

Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin

I

Iurii Samoilov

Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev

C

Clive Bayley

Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin

M

Margarita Nekrasova

Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina

X

Xenia Puskarz Thomas

Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina

J

Jessica Niles

Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina

Pavol Breslik

Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin

D

Daria Strulia

Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina

J

Jerzy Butryn

Afanassy Ivanovich Totsky

A

Alexander Kravets

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