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Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot

"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.

Top Cast

  • Bogdan Volkov

    Bogdan Volkov

    Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin

  • Aušrinė Stundytė

    Aušrinė Stundytė

    Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova

  • Vladislav Sulimsky

    Vladislav Sulimsky

    Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin

  • Iurii Samoilov

    Iurii Samoilov

    Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev

  • Clive Bayley

    Clive Bayley

    Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin

  • Margarita Nekrasova

    Margarita Nekrasova

    Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina

  • Xenia Puskarz Thomas

    Xenia Puskarz Thomas

    Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina

  • Jessica Niles

    Jessica Niles

    Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina

  • Pavol Breslik

    Pavol Breslik

    Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin

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.

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