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.

Cast

Bogdan Volkov

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin

Aušrinė Stundytė

Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova

Vladislav Sulimsky

Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin

Iurii Samoilov

Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev

Clive Bayley

Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin

Margarita Nekrasova

Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina

Xenia Puskarz Thomas

Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina

Jessica Niles

Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina

Pavol Breslik

Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin

Daria Strulia

Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina