Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla continues her high-profile championship of the works of the composer Mieczysław Weinberg with this new Salzburg Festival production of his final opera, The Idiot, with a libretto based on Dostoevsky’s great novel of innocence destroyed by corrupt society. Featuring music of great power and intensity, the opera, completed in 1985, showcases Weinberg’s remarkable skill as a musical dramatist, while this new production by Krzysztof Warlikowski promises to mark a watershed in its brief performance history.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Bogdan VolkovPrince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin | Prince Lev Nikolayevich Myshkin |
| AAušrinė StundytėNastasya Filippovna Barashkova | Nastasya Filippovna Barashkova |
| VVladislav SulimskyParfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin | Parfyon Semyonovich Rogozhin |
| IIurii SamoilovLukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev | Lukyan Timofeyevich Lebedev |
| CClive BayleyIvan Fyodorovich Yepanchin | Ivan Fyodorovich Yepanchin |
| MMargarita NekrasovaYelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina | Yelizaveta Prokofyevna Yepanchina |
| XXenia Puskarz ThomasAglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina | Aglaya Ivanovna Yepanchina |
| JJessica NilesAlexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina | Alexandra Ivanovna Yepanchina |
 Pavol BreslikGavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin | Gavrila (Ganya) Ardalionovich Ivolgin |
| DDaria StruliaVarvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina | Varvara (Varya) Ardalionovna Ivolgina |
| JJerzy ButrynAfanassy Ivanovich Totsky | Afanassy Ivanovich Totsky |
| AAlexander KravetsKnife grinder | Knife grinder |