From the House of the Dead & Glagolitic Mass
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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.
Gianluca Zampieri
Luka (Filka Morozov)
Roman Hoza
Alexandr Petrovič Gorjančikov
Jan Šťáva
Prison Governor
Zbigniew Malak
Tall Prisoner / Young Prisoner / Voice in Steppe / Prisoner 3
Lukáš Bařák
Short Prisoner / Prisoner 1 / Blacksmith / Čekunov
Eduard Martynyuk
Šapkin / Drunk Prisoner / Cheerful Prisoner
Vít Nosek
Prisoner with the Eagle / Prisoner 2 / Kedril / Čerevin
Tadeáš Hoza
Prisoner A / Don Juan / The Brahmin
Josef Škarka
Priest
Kornél Mikecz
Cook
David Nykl
Prisoner B / Fierce Prisoner
Jana Hrochová
Prostitute
Vilém Cupák
Guard 1
Michal Heriban
Eagle
Edita Antalová
Luisa
Eva Novotná
Aljeja's Mother
Jakub Hrůša
Self – Conductor
Jakub Kořínek
Director
Jiří Heřman
Stage Director
Petr Kozumplík
Gaffer
Lukáš Nábělek
Sound Designer
Patricie Částková
Dramaturgy
Pavel Otevřel
Camera Operator
Aleš Dvořák
Sound Designer
Petr Vejslík
Director of Photography
Zuzana Štefunková Rusínová
Costume Design
Radek Mařík
Camera Operator
Jiří Kovář
Camera Operator
Linda Kubíková
Camera Operator
Petr Král
Camera Operator
Jiří Strnad
Camera Operator
Miloslav Dvořáček
Camera Operator
Tomáš Řezníček
Music Director
Ctibor Krčmář
Camera Operator
Dorota Košťálová
Unit Production Manager
Igor Chvála
Production Manager
Jiří Heřman
Lighting Design
Tomáš Rusín
Set Designer
Anna Babjarová
Camera Operator
Martina Starová
Production Manager
Nora Obrtelová
Dramaturgy
Jan Horáček
Camera Operator
Pavel Stříbrný
Editor
Svatava Šenková
Creative Producer