(Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot)

Content: 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.

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Music

Runtime:

197 minutes

Year:

2024

Directors:

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Actors:

Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin

Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova

Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin

Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev

Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin

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Conductor

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Lighting Design