From the House of the Dead

Leoš Janáček
Production from 2018
Production L’Opéra de Lyon (delegated co-productor), De Munt / La Monnaie

The last opera by Czech composer Leoš Janáček is based on the semi-autobiographical novel The House of the Dead (1862) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. In it, the Russian author describes the inhumane conditions in a Siberian prison camp, on the basis of his own experiences and the testimonies of his fellow prisoners. Janáček’s music in no way softens the brutality of this hopeless existence, but that makes the unexpected moments of hope and solidarity in this opera all the more moving. Krzysztof Warlikowski, leading light of the European theater, directs this shockingly modernist work while the fierce and frenetic score is in good hands with conductor Michael Boder.

Direction
Krzysztof Warlikowski

Set design
Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Musical direction
Michael Boder