Travel Tip: Opera in Italy
From the House of the Dead

Janáček: From the House of the Dead
Sung in Czech with electronic libretto in Italian, English

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Staging: Patrice Chéreau
In collaboration with Thierry Thieu Niang
Sets: Richard Peduzzi
Costumes: Caroline De Vivaise
Lights: Bertrand Couderc
Chorus Master: Bruno Casoni

Cast:

Alexandr Gorjančikov: Willard White
Aljeja: Eric Stoklossa
Filka Morozov: Stefan Margita
Big prisoner: Peter Straka
Small prisoner: Vladimir Chmelo
Prison Governor: Jiri Sulzenko
Old prisoner: Heinz Zednik
Skuratov: John Mark Ainsley
Cekunov: Jan Galla
Drunk prisoner: Thomas Krejcirik
Priest: Aleksandar Stefanoski
Young prisoner: Olivier Dumait
Prositute: Susannah Haberfeld
Don Juan- Brahmin: Ales Jenis
Kedril: Marian Pavlovic
Šapkin: Peter Hoare
Šiškov / First guard: Peter Mattei
Čerevin / Second guard: Andreas Conrad