Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot

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.

Directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski

Top cast

Bogdan Volkov

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin

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Aušrinė Stundytė

Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova

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Vladislav Sulimsky

Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin

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Iurii Samoilov

Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev

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Clive Bayley

Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin

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Margarita Nekrasova

Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina

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Xenia Puskarz Thomas

Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina

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Jessica Niles

Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina

Pavol Breslik

Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin

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Daria Strulia

Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina

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Jerzy Butryn

Afanassy Ivanovich Totsky

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Alexander Kravets

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