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Opera on 3: Janacek's From the House of the Dead

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Janacek's From the House of the Dead

30/06/2018

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Janacek's From the House of the Dead

Janacek's From the House of the Dead, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Janacek's final and powerful work, From the House of the Dead, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with Willard White and Johan Reuter, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.

The first staging from the Royal Opera House of Janacek's final and most powerful work, the opera From the House of the Dead. Based on Dostoyevsky's semi-autobiographical novel describing life in a Siberian gulag, it is a very dark and bleak work, dealing with brutal subject matter - men prisoners with very violent pasts - and yet it is a compassionate work, Janacek's score is full of beauty and tenderness, and astonishing colours. The large cast includes Sir Willard White and the baritone Johan Reuter, and is conducted by Mark Wigglesworth.

Donald Macleod presents and is joined by Nigel Simeone.

Luka KuzmiÄ ..... Å tefan Margita (tenor)
Nikita (and big prisoner) ..... Nicky Spence (tenor)
ÄŒekunov (and small prisoner and cook) ..... Grant Doyle (bass)
Prison governor ..... Alexander Vassiliev (baritone)
Alexandr PetroviÄ GorjanÄikov ..... Willard W. White (baritone)
Guard ..... Andrew O'Connor (tenor)
AntoniÄ (elderly prisoner) ..... Graham Clark (tenor)
Skuratov ..... Ladislav Elgr (tenor)
Aljeja ..... Pascal Charbonneau (mezzo-soprano)
Å iÅ¡kov (and Pope) ..... Johan Reuter (baritone)
Drunk prisoner ..... Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (tenor)
Å apkin ..... Peter Hoare (tenor)
Prisoner (Don Juan and Brahmin) ..... AleÅ¡ Jenis (bass)
Prisoner (Kedril) ..... John Graham-Hall (tenor)
Young prisoner ..... Florian Hoffmann (tenor)
Prostitute ..... Allison Cook (mezzo-soprano)
Voice ..... Konu Kim (tenor)
ÄŒerevin ..... Alexander Kravets (tenor)

Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Mark Wigglesworth (conductor).

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