CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

German Premiere

Version by Andrea Breth, based on a translation by Swetlana Geier

Directed by Andrea Breth
Stage design Erich Wonder
Costume design Françoise Clavel
Lighting design Friedrich Rom
Music Bert Wrede
Sound design Alexander Nefzger

Jens Harzer Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, former student
Elisabeth Orth Pulkheria Alexandrovna Raskolnikova, his mother / Alyona Ivanovna, pawnbroker
Marie Burchard Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova (Dunya), his sister
Udo Samel Porfiry Petrovich, investigating magistrate
Sven-Eric Bechtolf Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov, landowner / Zosimov, doctor
Wolfgang Michael Pyotr Petrovich Luzhin / Alexander Grigorievich Zamyotov, head clerk of the police station
Sebastian Zimmler Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, student / Mikolka, painter
Swetlana Schönfeld Nastasya, servant / Lizaveta Ivanovna, the pawnbroker’s sister / Amalia Ivanovna Lippewechsel, landlady
Uwe Bertram Semyon Zakharich Marmeladov / Andrey Semyenovich Lebezyatnikov
Corinna Kirchhoff Katerina Ivanovna Marmeladova, his wife
Birte Schnöink Sofya Semyonovna Marmeladova (Sonja), his daughter

Production Salzburger Festspiele
World premiere 26 July 2008, Salzburger Festspiele
Length app. 5h

»Don’t taunt me; there is an idea in every affliction.«
FYODOR M. DOSTOEVSKY

Crime and Punishment tells of one of the most renowned criminal cases in world literature: the student Raskolnikov kills a pawnbroker in an almost perfect crime, burying the stolen money in a garden without ever retrieving it himself. His crime plunges him into confusion and loneliness.

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