From the House of the Dead
![A scene from Janacek’s “From the House of the Dead” | photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera](/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,width=780/media/12257858/metopera_2021_house-of-the-dead-800.jpg)
A scene from Janacek’s “From the House of the Dead” | photo: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera
Janáček’s profoundly moving opera From the House of the Dead, based on the novel by Dostoevsky set in a Siberian prison camp.
From the House of the Dead
by Leoš Janáček
Performance from December 2, 2009
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Stefan Margita (Filka Morozov/Kuzmich)
Eric Stoklossa (Alyeya)
Peter Mattei (Shishkov)
Willard White (Gorianchikov)