Posthumously premiered in 1930, From the House of the Dead derives from Dostoevsky’s autobiographical 1862 novel that drew on his experience as a political prisoner in Siberia. Janáček focuses on Dostoevsky’s idea of the “spark of God” in every human being that has the potential to redeem even the most hardened criminal.
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Cast
Willard White
Goryančikov
Pascal Charbonneau
Aljeja
Štefan Margita
Filka
Nicky Spence
Tall Prisoner / Nikita
Alexander Vassiliev
Prison Governor
Graham Clark
Elderly Prisoner
Ivan Ludlow
Prisoner / Čekunov / Cook
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts
Drunk Prisoner
Ales Jenis
Blacksmith / Don Juan
Pavlo Hunka
Šiškov / Priest
Florian Hoffmann
Prisoner
Natascha Petrinsky
Prostitute
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