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