Powerful music of irresistible poetry that conjures up images of Dostoevsky deported to Siberia. From the House of the Dead is a prophecy of the Nazi concentration camps and Stalin’s gulags, described in 1928 by Janacek, a genius of Czech music.

Patrice Chéreau’s performance, judged a masterpiece everywhere from Vienna to New York, triggers the explosion of a myriad of neuroses, causing us to reflect on the horrors of prisons in the modern day. Directed by Esa-Pekka Salonen, who provides outstanding interpretations of twentieth-century symphonic and theatre works.