Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot

Salzburg Festival 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.

• Release date
• August 23, 2024
• Runtime
• 197 min
• Genres
• Music
• Director
• Krzysztof Warlikowski

Cast

Bogdan Volkov Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin

A

Aušrinė Stundytė Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova

V

Vladislav Sulimsky Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin

I

Iurii Samoilov Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev

C

Clive Bayley Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin

M

Margarita Nekrasova Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina

X

Xenia Puskarz Thomas Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina

J

Jessica Niles Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina