Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot
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
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
Daria Strulia
as Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina