From the House of the Dead

Condensing the life stories – memories of prison in Silesia – related by Dostoyevsky in his work The House of the Dead, Leoš Janáček composed an opera filled with burning desire and longing. Contagious savagery, cruelty and brutality are exacerbated by the confines of the prison. However, within its concrete walls emerge both tenderness and cruelty at the sight of an injured bird; a multitude of stories and highly personal monologues. With this production, first performed at the Wiener Festwochen in 2007, the Paris Opera pays tribute to Patrice Chéreau.

Images

Cast

Willard White

Alexandre Petrovitch Goriantchikov

Eric Stoklossa

Alieïa

Štefan Margita

Filka Morosov

Ladislav Elgr

Skuratov

Peter Mattei

Šiškov

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Self - Conductor

Related

All Day and a Night

20206.3out of 10

Lorelei

20206.0out of 10

Hands of Stone

20166.6out of 10

Eleanor the Great

20256.9out of 10

Salomé

20136.1out of 10

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

20157.5out of 10

The Cut

20256.0out of 10

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert

20187.0out of 10

Resurrecting the Champ

20076.3out of 10

My Dinner with Hervé

20186.3out of 10

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

19727.3out of 10

Burning Sands

20175.8out of 10

TalhotBlond

20126.3out of 10

A Dry White Season

19896.7out of 10

Home

20216.7out of 10

Fast Girls

20126.0out of 10