Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot
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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.
Top cast
Bogdan Volkov
Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
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Aušrinė Stundytė
Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova
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Vladislav Sulimsky
Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
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Iurii Samoilov
Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev
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Clive Bayley
Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin
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Margarita Nekrasova
Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina
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Xenia Puskarz Thomas
Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina
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Jessica Niles
Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina
Pavol Breslik
Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin
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Daria Strulia
Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina
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Jerzy Butryn
Afanassy Ivanovich Totsky
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Alexander Kravets
Knife grinder
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