»Aus einem Totenhaus« von Leoš Janáček

In the organizer's words:

Murderers, robbers and traitors live in cramped conditions in the Siberian prison camp described by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in his Notes from a House of the Dead . Can there be hope, humanity or even compassion for the guilty in this environment? Leoš Janáček transforms the core questions of the harrowing novel into an opera and draws on snapshots from Dostoyevsky's work. In four monologues, we are shown the story and the mental lives of individual criminals, which are conveyed all the more impressively through the music. The arrest and release of the young journalist Aleksandr Petrovič Gorjančikov, who goes through all the stages of this underworld like Dante's circles of hell, acts as a bracket.

Director David Hermann tells the story of the abysmally dark power and differentiation of the Czech composer's last score in a large-scale, yet greatly reduced stage design by Johannes Schütz, which allows the full despair of the work to be experienced.