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From the House of the Dead & Glagolitic Mass

Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian prison in the company of misfits, murderers and theives, Dostoevsky was inspired to write his novel Notes from a Dead House, telling his brother at the time: ‘Believe me, there were among them deep, strong, beautiful natures, and it often gave me great joy to find gold under a rough exterior.’ In Janáček’s hands, Dostoevsky’s inspiration and the raw material drawn from an appalling world of incarceration find an even more powerful form of expression in his last opera, From the House of the Dead. Unfettered by conventional story-telling, Janáček wrote his own libretto, freely weaving together a series of stories of everyday prison life and of the fates of individual convicts.

Top Cast

  • Gianluca Zampieri

    Gianluca Zampieri

    Luka (Filka Morozov)

  • Roman Hoza

    Roman Hoza

    Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov

  • Jarmila Balážová

    Jarmila Balážová

    Aljeja / Young Tatar

  • Peter Berger

    Peter Berger

    Skuratov

  • Pavol Kubáň

    Pavol Kubáň

    Šiškov

  • Jan Šťáva

    Jan Šťáva

    Prison Governor

  • Zbigniew Malak

    Zbigniew Malak

    Tall Prisoner / Young Prisoner / Voice in Steppe / Prisoner 3

  • Lukáš Bařák

    Lukáš Bařák

    Short Prisoner / Prisoner 1 / Blacksmith / Čekunov

  • Eduard Martynyuk

    Eduard Martynyuk

    Šapkin / Drunk Prisoner / Cheerful Prisoner

Overview

Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian prison in the company of misfits, murderers and theives, Dostoevsky was inspired to write his novel Notes from a Dead House, telling his brother at the time: ‘Believe me, there were among them deep, strong, beautiful natures, and it often gave me great joy to find gold under a rough exterior.’ In Janáček’s hands, Dostoevsky’s inspiration and the raw material drawn from an appalling world of incarceration find an even more powerful form of expression in his last opera, From the House of the Dead. Unfettered by conventional story-telling, Janáček wrote his own libretto, freely weaving together a series of stories of everyday prison life and of the fates of individual convicts.

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