From the House of the Dead & Glagolitic Mass
Directed by Jakub Kořínek
Plot
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.
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Cast
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
Vít Nosek
Prisoner with the Eagle / Prisoner 2 / Kedril / Čerevin
Petr Levíček
Elderly Prisoner
Tadeáš Hoza
Prisoner A / Don Juan / The Brahmin
Josef Škarka
Priest
Kornél Mikecz
Cook
David Nykl
Prisoner B / Fierce Prisoner