Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot 2024
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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
- Runtime: 197 minutes
- Genre: Music
- Stars: Bogdan Volkov, Aušrinė Stundytė, Vladislav Sulimsky, Iurii Samoilov, Clive Bayley
- Director: Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Małgorzata Szczęśniak, Małgorzata Szczęśniak, Felice Ross
