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.

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Cast:

Michal

Heriban

Edita

Antalová

Eva

Novotná

Kateřina

Kněžíková

Jakub

Hrůša

Gianluca

Zampieri

Roman

Hoza

Jarmila

Balážová

Peter

Berger

Pavol

Kubáň

Jan

Šťáva

Zbigniew

Malak

Lukáš

Bařák

Eduard

Martynyuk

Vít

Nosek

Petr

Levíček

Tadeáš

Hoza

Josef

Škarka

Kornél

Mikecz

David

Nykl

Jana

Hrochová

Vilém

Cupák

Michal

Heriban

Edita

Antalová

Eva

Novotná

Kateřina

Kněžíková

Jakub

Hrůša

Gianluca

Zampieri

Roman

Hoza

Jarmila

Balážová

Peter

Berger

Pavol

Kubáň