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.

Cast

Willard White

Alexandre Petrovitch Goriantchikov

Štefan Margita

Filka Morosov

Peter Mattei

Šiškov

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Self - Conductor

Eric Stoklossa

Alieïa

Ladislav Elgr

Skuratov