1543691
1543691

Mieczysław Weinberg: The Idiot

"Salzburg Festival 2024"

2024-08-23 ru 197m
Music
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.

Conductor

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

Director

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Set Designer

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Costume Design

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Lighting Design

Felice Ross

Choreographer

Claude Bardouil

Status

Released

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