FULL THE IDIOT (Weinberg) Salzburg 2024 Bogdan Volkov, Aušrinė Stundytė, Pavol Breslik, Vladislav Sulimsky
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: The Idiot
- Composer: Weinberg Mieczysław
- Libretto: Alexander Medwedew based on the novel by Dostojevski Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, Austria, Salzburger Festspiele
- Recorded: August 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Bogdan Volkov, Aušrinė Stundytė, Pavol Breslik, Vladislav Sulimsky, Iurii Samoilov, Clive Bayley, Margarita Nekrasova, Xenia Puskarz Thomas, Jessica Niles, Daria Strulia, Jerzy Butryn
- Conductor: Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
- Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
- Chorus: Herren der Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
- Chorus Master: Pawel Markowicz
- Choreographer: Claude Bardouil
Information about the Recording
- Published by: STAGE+, medici.tv, Unitel
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, desubs
- Video Recording from: STAGE+ FULL VIDEO
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The Idiot ( Russian: Идиот ) is an opera in four acts and ten scenes (op. 144) by Mieczysław Weinberg . The opera was written in 1986/87. The premiere of a short version took place on December 19, 1991 at the Moscow Chamber Opera . The complete work was first performed on May 9, 2013 under the direction of Thomas Sanderling at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. The libretto by Alexander Medvedev is based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Idiot.
Mieczysław Weinberg’s last opera, The Idiot, was written in 1986/1987. It is based on the “polyphonic” novel The Idiot by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky . After the performance of a reduced version at the Moscow Chamber Opera on December 19, 1991, directed by Boris Pokrowski, the complete premiere took place on May 9, 2013, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim under the musical direction of Thomas Sanderling . The director was Regula Gerber , the stage design was by Stefan Mayer , the costumes by Falk Bauer , the lighting design by Nicole Berry and the video recordings by Thilo David Heins. The cast included Dimitry Golovnin (Prince Myshkin), Ludmila Slepneva (Nastassja Filippovna), Steven Scheschareg (Rogozhin), Lars Møller (Lebedjew), Alexander Vassiliev (Yepantschin), Elzbieta Ardam (Yepantschina), Anne-Theresa Møller (Aglaja), Cornelia Ptassek (Alexandra), Diana Matthess (Adelaida), Gunter Möckel (Ivolgin), Katharina Göres (Varvara), Bryan Boyce (Totzki), Uwe Eikötter (Gavrila Ardalionowitsch), Robert Schwarts (Knife sharpener) and Helga Arnold (Nina Alexandrovna Ivolgina). The production was voted “World Premiere of the Year” in the 2013 Opernwelt critics’ poll with the same number of votes as George Benjamin’s Written on Skin . A recording was released on CD by Pan Classics.
The Austrian premiere took place in April 2023 at the MusikTheater an der Wien in the MuseumsQuartier under the direction of Vasily Barkhatov. The following year, the performance at the Salzburg Festival in a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski and under the musical direction of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla attracted international attention.
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