The idiot
2024
DVD
Weinberg's final opera, based on Dostoevsky's novel, condenses the plot without losing it's psychological depth. Prince Myshkin, mentally ill yet believing in goodness, meets merchant Rogozhin on a train, sparking a tale of dependence, madness, and murder. The opera, rediscovered in the last decade, presents the composer Weinberg as Shostakovich's equal. The Idiot, composed in 1986-1989, now staged in Salzburg, directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski and conducted by Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, brings the world of literature to the opera stage. The excellent cast of singers contributes to make the production a great success.
Item Details
Description:
- 2 videodiscs (197 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- surround
- DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1
- PCM 2.0
- wide screen
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
Target Audience Note:
- E.
- Canadian Home Video Rating: Not rated.
Other Title:
- Weinberg's The Idiot
- container of (work): Idiot (Motion picture) [DVD].
Notes:
- Title from container.
- Bogdan Volkov, Aušrinė Stundytė, Vladislav Sulimsky, Xenia Puskarz Thomas, Iurii Samoilov.
- DVD ; wide screen presentation ; DTS-HD Digital surround 5.1, PCM 2.0.
- For private home use only.
- Audio track in Russian, with optional subtitles in English, Polish, German, French, Korean, Japanese.
Contents:
- Disc 1. The idiot.
- Disc 2. Bonus disc.
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- 811408
- 811408
Control Number: 3401626
UPC:
- 810116910939
- 810116910939
Subjects: Operas.
Genre:
- Filmed performances.
- Foreign films.
- Motion pictures, Russian.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Bardouil, Claude, choreographer.
- C Major Entertainment GmbH, film distributor.
- GraĹľinytÄ—-Tyla, Mirga, 1986- conductor.
- Stundyte, Ausrine, performer.
- SulimskiÄ, Vladislav, 1966- performer.
- Szczeʹsniak, Małgorzata, performer.
- Thomas, Xenia Puskarz, performer.
- Volkov, Bogdan, 1989- performer.
- Warlikowski, Krzysztof, 1962- stage director.
- Wiener Philharmoniker, performer.
- opera adaptation of (work): VaÄnberg, M. (MoiseÄ). Idiot.