Janáček's From the House of the Dead: Opéra National de Paris
About the Event
The Opéra de Paris pays tribute to French director Patrice Chéreau who died in 2013 and offers the audience a chance to rediscover his production of Janáček's From the House of the Dead, initially created at the Wiener Festwochen in 2007.
Leoš Janáček based his opera on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's semi‐autobiographical novel The House of the Dead, which recounts the author's own memories of prison in Silesia.
In Czech, with French and English surtitles
Cast / Production
Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen
Director: Patrice Chéreau
Artistic collaboration: Thierry Thieû Niang
Set design: Richard Peduzzi
Costume design: Caroline de Vivaise
Lighting design: Bertrand Couderc
Chorus master: José Luis Basso
Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov: Willard White
Alieïa: Eric Stoklossa
Filka Morozov: Štefan Margita
Big Prisoner: Peter Straka
Small Prisoner: VladimÍr Chmelo
Prison Governor: JiřÍ Sulženko
Elderly Prisoner: Heinz Zednik
Skuratov: Ladislav Elgr
Čekunov: Ján Galla
Drunk Prisoner: Tomáš Krejčiřík
Cook, Blacksmith: Martin Bárta
Priest: Vadim Artamonov
Young Prisoner: Olivier Dumait
Prostitute: Susannah Haberfeld
Prisoner/Don Juan/The Brahmin: Ales Jeniš
Kedril: Marian Pavlovič
Šapkin: Peter Hoare
Šiškov: Peter Mattei
Čerevin: Andreas Conrad
Prison guards: Chae Hoon Baek, Laurent Laberdesque
Orchestra and Choirs of the Opéra national de Paris
Production with Wiener Festwochen, Vienna
Coproduction with the Holland festival, Amsterdam, the Festival d’Aix‐en‐Provence, the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and the Teatro alla Scala, Milano
