From the House of the Dead
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 12, 2009
Closed Dec 5, 2009
Opened Nov 12, 2009
Closed Dec 5, 2009
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With this new production, voted Europe's best opera staging for 2007, one of opera's great visionaries makes his Met debut. Patrice Chéreau, renowned for his legendary centennial Ring cycle at Bayreuth, directs Janácek's drama of human resilience inside a Russian prison. Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen also makes his Met debut, and Peter Mattei leads the ensemble cast.
A production of the Metropolitan Opera and the Wiener Festwochen, in co-production with Holland Festival, Amsterdam; the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence; and Teatro alla Scala, Milan.
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Until now, Leos Janacek's From the House of the Dead has never been produced at the Metropolitan Opera. Neither has Esa-Pekka Salonen ever conducted the Met orchestra nor has Patrice Chereau ever staged a work in the huge, often intimidating space. Not only have all three oversights been rectified, it's difficult to imagine a better, more rousing version of this opera than the one now on view.
Adapted from Fyodor Dostoevsky's fictionalized report on his years in a Russian prison, this ensemble piece is written in three relatively brief (and here intermissionless) acts. During it, the inmates, their keepers, and a few assorted visitors (a cleric, a few prostitutes) exist in tense accommodat[...]