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.
Gianluca Zampieri
Roman Hoza
Jarmila Balážová
Peter Berger
Pavol Kubáň
Jan Šťáva
Zbigniew Malak
Lukáš Bařák
Eduard Martynyuk
Vít Nosek
Petr Levíček
Tadeáš Hoza
Josef Škarka
Kornél Mikecz
David Nykl
Jana Hrochová
Vilém Cupák
Michal Heriban
Edita Antalová
Eva Novotná
Kateřina Kněžíková
Jakub Hrůša