Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts Weinberg: The Idiot

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla continues her high-profile championship of the works of the composer Mieczysław Weinberg with this new Salzburg Festival production of his final opera, The Idiot, with a libretto based on Dostoevsky’s great novel of innocence destroyed by corrupt society. Featuring music of great power and intensity, the opera, completed in 1985, showcases Weinberg’s remarkable skill as a musical dramatist, while this new production by Krzysztof Warlikowski promises to mark a watershed in its brief performance history. Few conductors, meanwhile, are better qualified to conduct the work than Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, who conducts a first-rate international cast.

Soloists: 

Vladislav Sulimsky (Baritone), Clive Bayley (Bass), Bogdan Volkov (Tenor), Aušrinė Stundytė (Soprano), Iurii Samoilov (Baritone), Margarita Nekrasova (Mezzo-Soprano), Xenia Puskarz Thomas (Mezzo-Soprano), Jessica Niles (Soprano), Pavol Breslik (Tenor), Daria Strulia (Soprano), Jerzy Butryn (Bass), Alexander Kravets (Tenor)

Ensembles: 

Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor: 

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla