Details

Telling the story of the inmates of a Siberian prison, the opera reflects their feelings of pain, oppression and injustice as each recount why they ended up in jail. Their gloom is eased as they painstakingly nurse an eagle back to health, which comes to symbolize both Russia and the notion of freedom. Revival of earlier production, sung in English. Co-production with Scottish Opera.

Creatives/Company

Author: Leos Janacek
Book by: Dostoyevsky
Company: Welsh National Opera
Director: David Pountney
Conductor: Richard Armstrong