Can the darkest moments of life also lift our souls? Drawing on his own experience in a Siberian prison in the company of misfits, murderers and theives, Dostoevsky was inspired to write his novel Notes from a Dead House, telling his brother at the time: ‘Believe me, there were among them deep, strong, beautiful natures, and it often gave me great joy to find gold under a rough exterior.’ In Janáček’s hands, Dostoevsky’s inspiration and the raw material drawn from an appalling world of incarceration find an even more powerful form of expression in his last opera, From the House of the Dead. Unfettered by conventional story-telling, Janáček wrote his own libretto, freely weaving together a series of stories of everyday prison life and of the fates of individual convicts.
Jakub Kořínek
Director
Gianluca Zampieri
Luka (Filka Morozov)
Roman Hoza
Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov
Jarmila Balážová
Aljeja / Young Tatar
Peter Berger
Skuratov
Pavol Kubáň
Šiškov
Jan Šťáva
Prison Governor
Zbigniew Malak
Tall Prisoner / Young Prisoner / Voice in Steppe / Prisoner 3
Lukáš Bařák
Short Prisoner / Prisoner 1 / Blacksmith / Čekunov
Eduard Martynyuk
Šapkin / Drunk Prisoner / Cheerful Prisoner
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert82%
The Tales of Hoffmann71%
Maria64%
A Cinderella Story: Christmas Wish64%
A Night at the Opera74%
One Chance66%
TÁR70%
Jersey Boys67%
The Testament of Ann Lee63%
A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits72%
Cinderella65%
Danny Collins67%
The Choral64%
A Complete Unknown70%
Sister Act68%
Another Cinderella Story73%
Battle of the Year67%
Tom Sawyer64%
A Mighty Wind67%
Song for Marion68%
