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From the House of the Dead at The National Theatre

Dates: (5/17/2016 - 5/23/2016 )

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The National Theatre


Národní 2
Praha 1,Praha 1 110 00

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Running Time: 2 hours and 15 minutes, 1 intermission

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Leoš Janá?ek’s final opera, was inspired by Dostoyevsky’s novel The House of the Dead, reflecting the author’s own experience as a political prisoner in a Siberian penal camp amid a wide scale of convicts condemned for various crimes. In the opera, Janá?ek put aside the repeatedly treated stories of great female dramatis personae and immersed himself in the world of male “crime and punishment”. The metaphor of “the dead house” gives rise to the composer’s peculiar, anti-dramatic conception of the opera. Even though the life in the camp is depicted lushly and extremely realistically, it all serves as mere coulisse, an ever-repeating and depressing rite, a pretended life. The prisoners actually perceive as real life their past, into which they obsessively return, some of them telling shocking stories so as to make sure they are still alive.

Cast and Creative team for From the House of the Dead at The National Theatre

Musical preparation: Robert Jindra
Conductor: Robert Jindra, David Švec
Stage director: Daniel Špinar
Sets: Lucia Škandíková
Costumes: Iva N?mcová
Light-design: Martin Špetlík
Chorus master: Martin Buchta, Miriam N?mcová
Choreography: Radim Vizváry
Dramaturgy: Ond?ej Hu?ín


Gorjan?ikov


František Zahradní?ek

Aljeja


Michal Bragagnolo

Filka Morozov


Štefan Margita

Small prisoner


Pavel Švingr

Placmajor


Yevhen Shokalo

Old prisoner


Jan Markvart

Skuratov


Josef Moravec

Cook


Karel Drábek

Bitch


Št?pán Eliáš

Shishkov


Pavol Remenár

Guard


Ji?í Hruška

Don Juan / Brahmín / ?ekunov


Ji?í Brückler

Šapkin / Kedril


Ondrej Šaling

Young prisoner


Václav Lemberk

Dancer


Jana Vrána

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