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.

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova
Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev
Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin
Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina
Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina
Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina

Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin
Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina

Status
Released
Type
Movie
Director
Krzysztof Warlikowski
Genres