Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Giacomo Puccini
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky
Gioachino Rossini
Francesco Cilea
Richard Wagner
Richard Strauss
Gaetano Donizetti
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Georges Bizet
Gioacchino Rossini
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Umberto Giordano
Richard Strauss
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Andrei Rubtsov
Dimitry Rostovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alexei Verstovsky
Giuseppe Verdi
Anton Rubinstein
Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns
Mieczysław Weinberg
Sergei Banevich
Modest Mussorgsky
Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Georg Philipp Telemann
Sergei Prokofiev
Giuseppe Verdi
Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel
Dmitry Shostakovich
Tatiana Kamysheva
Georges Bizet
Giacomo Puccini
Jacques Offenbach
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dmitry Shostakovich
Hector Berlioz
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The opera, based on the novel by Dostoevsky, the last opera by Weinberg, was completed in 1986. The premiere of a small cast edition took place in 1991 on the stage of the Chamber Music Theatre that is now part of the Bolshoi.
The production was realised by the artistic director of the Chamber Theatre, the great director Boris Pokrovsky. The world premiere of a full stage version was at the Mannheim National Theatre (Germany) almost twenty-five years later, in 2013. The current production at the Bolshoi was realised by famous Polish conductor Michał Klauza and by director and teacher Evgeny Arye, the founder of the world famous Israeli Gesher Theatre. It came out in 2017 on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre and became a significant event in the cultural life of the country.
Premiered on February 12, 2017.
Presented with one interval.
Score adaptation by Philippe Adam
Libretto by Alexander Medvedev based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Act I
Scene One
Prince Lev Nikolaevich Myshkin returns to St. Petersburg after years of treatment in Switzerland. On the train he meets Parfyon Rogozhin and Lebedev. Rogozhin has just inherited a fortune of two million from his father who died a sudden death. Not long before that Rogozhin had to flee from father’s wrath after having spent ten thousand on a gift to Nastassya Filippovna whom he fell in love with at first sight.
Meanwhile Nastassya Filippovna is anxiously waiting for her fate to be sealed on that very night.