The idiot (vineyard)
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| Title: | The idiot |
| Original title: | Идиот (idiot) |
| Shape: | Opera in four acts |
| Original language: | Russian |
| Music: | Mieczysław vineyard |
| Libretto : | Alexander Medvedev |
| Literary source: | Fyodor Dostoyevsky : The Idiot |
| Premiere: | December 19, 1991 |
| Place of premiere: | Moscow Chamber Opera |
| Playing time: | approx. 3 ½ hours |
| Place and time of the action: | St. Petersburg and the surrounding area, around 1860 |
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The Idiot ( Russian Идиот ) is an opera in four acts and ten pictures (op. 144) by Mieczysław Weinberg . The opera was written in 1986/87. The first performance of a short version took place on December 19, 1991 at the Moscow Chamber Opera . The complete work was only premiered on May 9, 2013 under the direction of Thomas Sanderling at the Nationaltheater Mannheim . The libretto by Alexander Medvedev based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot .
Instrumentation
The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwinds : three flutes (including piccolo ), three oboes (also cor anglais ), four clarinets (also clarinet and bass clarinet ), three bassoons (including contrabassoon)
- Brass : four horns , three trumpets , three trombones , tuba
- Timpani , percussion : triangle , snare drum , bass drum , bell, glockenspiel , xylophone , marimba
- harp
- Celesta
- Strings
- Incidental music: piano
There is also a reduced version for small orchestra:
- Woodwinds: a flute (also piccolo), two oboes, a clarinet (also E flat clarinet), a bassoon (also contrabassoon)
- Brass: two horns, a trumpet, a trombone
- Timpani, percussion (two or three players): tambourine , bass drum, tam-tam , bell, carillon, xylophone, marimba
- harp
- Celesta
- Strings
- Incidental music: piano
Work history
Mieczysław Weinberg's last opera The Idiot was written in 1986/1987. It is based on the "polyphonic" novel The Idiot by Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostojewski . After the performance of a reduced version at the Moscow Chamber Opera on December 19, 1991 under the direction of Boris Pokrowski , it was not before the full world premiere at the Mannheim National Theater on May 9, 2013 under the musical direction of Thomas Sanderling . The director had Regula Gerber , the stage was from Stefan Mayer , the costumes by Falk Bauer , the lighting design by Nicole Berry and video recordings of Thilo David Heins. Dimitry Golovnin (Prince Myshkin), Ludmila Slepneva (Nastassja Filippowna), Steven Scheschareg (Rogoschin), Lars Møller (Lebedjew), Alexander Vassiliev (Jepantschin), Elzbieta Ardam (Jepantschina), Anne-Theresa Møller ( Jepantschina) sang and played . Cornelia Ptassek (Alexandra), Diana Matthess (Adelaida), Gunter Möckel (Iwolgin), Katharina Göres (Warwara), Bryan Boyce (Totzki), Uwe Eikötter (Gawrila Ardalionowitsch), Robert Schwarts (knife grinder) and Helga Arnold (Nina Alexandrowna Iwolgina) . The production was voted "World Premiere of the Year" in the 2013 Opernwelt critics poll with the same number of votes as George Benjamin's Written on Skin . A recording was released on CD by Pan Classics.
Web links
- THE IDIOT. Opera in 4 acts based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Work information from Sikorski
- The idiot at the National Theater Mannheim
- Reinhard Ermen: Manuscript of a radio broadcast from February 10, 2014 (PDF) on SWR2
- Christoph Wurzel: Knowing out of pity and guilty. Review of the Mannheim premiere in Online Musik Magazin
- Raphael Lübbers: Detailed table of contents at Musirony
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Idiot at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , accessed on June 13, 2017.
- ↑ a b THE IDIOT. Opera in 4 acts based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Work information from Sikorski , accessed on June 13, 2017.
- ↑ Christoph Wurzel: Knowing out of pity and guilty. Review of the Mannheim premiere in Online Musik Magazin, accessed on June 13, 2017.
- ↑ Balance of the year. In: Opernwelt Jahrbuch 2013, p. 96f.