Name: Z mrtvého domu
Start: 2018-10-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2018-10-26T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Nationaltheater

Organization

Singer

Baritone

Peter Rose

Goryanchikov

Soprano

Evgeniya Sotnikova

Aljeja

Tenor

Aleš Briscein

Luka Kumic

Charles Workman

Skuratov

Manuel Günther

Big Convict

Tim Kuypers

Small Convict

Christian Rieger

The Commandant

Ulrich Reß

The old Prisoner

Bass

Milan Siljanov

Chekunov

Galeano Salas

The drunken prisoner

Oğulcan Yılmaz

The cook

Oleksandr Milev

blacksmith

Peter Lobert

Priest

Mezzo-soprano

Niamh O'Sullivan

Prostitute

Callum Thorpe

Brahmin

Matthew Grills

The prisoner

Kevin Conners

Shapkin

Bo Skovhus

Shishkov

Dean Power

Cherevin

Long Long

First guard

Conductor

Simone Young

Set designer

Aleksandar Denić

Costume designer

Adriana Braga Peretzki

Video designer

Andreas Deinert

Jens Crull

Lighting designer

Rainer Casper

Chorus master

Sören Eckhoff

Dramaturge

Miron Hakenbeck

Andy Sommer

Stage director

Frank Castorf

Bayerische Staatsoper

Czech

Z mrtvého domu -  (From the House of the Dead)

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

Mannheim

Stage director Frank Castorf “might have been born to direct From the House of the Dead” (Opera Today). His gritty, visually striking adaptation brings bold modern and postmodern touches to Janáček’s masterwork without ever overshadowing the intense forward momentum of the music, conducted to dramatic perfection by Simone Young and sung by an all-star cast in Munich.

Janáček adapted Dostoevsky for this powerfully compelling opera set in a Siberian prison camp, full of starkly contrasting moods and motifs, unusual in its episodic structure. The last opera Janáček ever composed, its third act was on his desk when he died in 1928; attempts by his students to “complete” his orchestration have largely fallen away over the decades in favor of the original version. Despite the grimness of the setting and the brutality of several characters, the composer’s compassion shines through in tender moments, movingly illustrating his motto for the work: “in every creature, a spark of God.”

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