Name: Z mrtvého domu
Start: 2022-11-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Janáčkovo divadlo

Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Robert Kružík

Direction de choeur

Pavel Koňárek

Mise en scène

Jiří Heřman

Décors

Tomáš Rusín

Costumes

Zuzana Štefunková-Rusínová

Lumières

Dramaturgie

Patricie Částková

Assistant Director

Otakar Blaha

Chanteur

Ténor

Gianluca Zampieri

Filka Morosov

Peter Berger

Skuratov

Baryton

Pavol Kubán

Chichkov

Basse

Tadeáš Hoza

Brahmine

Eduard Martynyuk

Chapkine

Soprano

Jarmila Balážová

Aljeja

Roman Hoza

Alexandr Petrovitch Gorjantchikov

David Nykl

Le prisonnier ivre

Kornél Mikecz

Le prisonnier cuisinier

Le commandant

Petr Levíček

Le Vieux Prisonnier

Zbigniew Malak

Le jeune prisonnier

Lukáš Bařák

Le petit prisonnier

Josef Škarka

Le Pope

Kateřina Kněžíková

soprano

Mezzo-soprano

mezzo-soprano

Jana Hrochová

tenor

Jan Šťáva

bass

Jakub Hrůša

Martin Buchta

Chorégraphie

Jan Kodet

Placmajor

Prisoner 1

Kovář

Tchekunov

Vít Nosek

Prisoner with an eagle

Prisoner 2

Le prisonnier Kedril

Tcherevin

Une prostituée

ND Brno

tchèque

Z mrtvého domu -  (De la maison des morts)

Brno

Tchéquie

Janáčkovo divadlo

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. The cast is exclusively male and made up of a collective, rather than of interacting soloists; a chorus opera from which individual speakers step out to tell their tales. The longest monologue of all, Šiškov’s, told in the quietness of the prison hospital at night, is emblematic of the whole opera: a harrowing tale constructed around a transcendentally gentle theme, just as Janáček’s own compassion threads through and transforms his grimmest and yet most uplifting opera. Despite an oppressive finale, Janáček wrote at the beginning of the score, ‘In every creature a spark of God!’ And this is this spark that inspired the National Theatre in the composer’s home city of Brno, to connect Janáček’s last opera with an equally distinctive work, his Glagolitic Mass. Janáček said of his Mass : ‘I wanted to capture here faith in the security of the nation not on a religious basis, but on a moral, strong one, which takes God as a witness.’ This live stream from the heart of Janáček country - offering a staged version of the Glagolitic Mass as a continuation of From the House of the Dead in a new critical edition by Prof. John Tyrrell - should bear new testimony to the power of faith in man and to the genius of their local composer.

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