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Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot (2024)
Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski
“Salzburg Festival 2024”
Music · 3h 17m
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
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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Crew
- Director
- Krzysztof Warlikowski
- Original Music Composer
- Mieczysław Weinberg
Details
- Release date
- 2024-08-23
- Runtime
- 3h 17m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- RU