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.
as Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin
as Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova
as Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin
as Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev
as Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin
as Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina
as Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina
as Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina
as Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin
as Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina
as Afanassy Ivanovich Totsky
as Knife grinder
