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Weinberg finished an opera based on Dostoevsky's novel - his last opera - in 1986. The premiere of the edition for a small performer took place in 1991 on the stage of the Chamber Musical Theater, which is now part of the Bolshoi. The production was staged by the artistic director of the Chamber Theater, the great director Boris Pokrovsky. The world premiere of the full stage version took place at the National Theater Mannheim (Germany) almost twenty-five years later, in 2013. The current production of the Bolshoi - the famous Polish conductor Michal Klausa and the director and teacher, founder of the world famous Israeli theater "Gesher" Eugene Arie worked on it - was released in 2017 on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theater and became a landmark event in the cultural life of the country. Throughout the 20th century, Dostoevsky's philosophically rich, dynamic and expressive prose aroused the keenest composer's interest. Starting with "Yolka" by Vladimir Rebikov and "The Gambler" by Sergei Prokofiev, almost all of the writer's novels and stories have been embodied in the operatic genre. Thus, the novel The Idiot, in addition to Weinberg's composition, brought to life the opera Nastasya Filippovna by Valerian Bogdanov-Berezovsky and NFB by Vladimir Kobekin, Yuri Butsko and Gleb Sedelnikov wrote chamber operas White Nights and Poor People, respectively. Foreign composers also turned to the work of Dostoevsky - the last work of Leos Janacek for the musical theater was his famous opera "From the Dead House".
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