Overview

Posthumously premiered in 1930, From the House of the Dead derives from Dostoevsky’s autobiographical 1862 novel that drew on his experience as a political prisoner in Siberia. Janáček focuses on Dostoevsky’s idea of the “spark of God” in every human being that has the potential to redeem even the most hardened criminal.

Genres

Cast

Willard White

Goryančikov

Štefan Margita

Filka

Ivan Ludlow

Prisoner / Čekunov / Cook

John Graham-Hall

Kedril

Peter Hoare

Šapkin