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From the House of the Dead at The National Theatre

Dates: (5/15/2015 - 6/12/2015 )

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The National Theatre


Ostrovní 1
Praha 1,Praha 1 112 30

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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
Stage director: Daniel Špinar
Sets: Martin Chocholoušek
Costumes: Iva N?mcová
Chorus master: Martin Buchta
Dramaturgy: Ond?ej Hu?ín

Aljeja
Jan Mikušek
Filka Morozov
Štefan Margita
Small prisoner
Jan Š?áva
Placmajor
František Zahradní?ek
Old prisoner
Valentin Prolat
Skuratov
Aleš Briscein
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Aleš Jenis
Šapkin / Kedril
Jaroslav B?ezina
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