Pascal Charbonneau

L'opéra se passe dans les montagnes de Gilboé, entre le camp des Israélites et celui des Philistins.

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.