Film

Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot

Salzburg Festival 2024

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3h 17m

2024

“Salzburg Festival 2024”

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.

Director

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Music

Cast & Crew

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

Margarita Nekrasova

as Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina

Xenia Puskarz Thomas

as Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina

Jessica Niles

as Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina

Pavol Breslik

as Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin

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