Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot (2024)
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.
- Released
- 2024-08-23
- Genres
- Music
- Runtime
- 197 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Krzysztof Warlikowski
Cast
- Bogdan Volkov as Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
- Aušrinė Stundytė as Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova
- Vladislav Sulimsky as Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
- Iurii Samoilov as Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev
- Clive Bayley as Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin
- Margarita Nekrasova as Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina
- Xenia Puskarz Thomas as Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina
- Jessica Niles as Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina
- Pavol Breslik as Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin
- Daria Strulia as Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina
- Jerzy Butryn as Afanassy Ivanovich Totsky
- Alexander Kravets as Knife grinder