Time 18:00
Sanok Community Center, Mickiewicza 24 in Sanok
The performance is part of the 34th Adam Didur Festival 2025
Even though Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, a famous representative of the Italian Baroque, lived for only 26 years, the works he left granted him a permanent place in the history of music. The brightest star in his artistic legacy is the seemingly simple intermezzo La serva padrona (The Servant Turned Mistress). This short work, written when Pergolesi was only 23, is still performed in Europe to this day, both in the original language version and in numerous translations.
The libretto written by Gennaro Antonio Federico is centered around a simple intrigue originating from the commedia dell’arte tradition. Here we have a wealthy old bachelor looking for a wife and his cunning servant who successfully presents herself as the best candidate. Pergolesi finds the perfect musical measures to describe the characters, and the words they sing are reflected in the charming recitatives and arias. All this has been wonderfully summarised by Piotr Kamiński in his lexicon Tysiąc i jedna opera (“1001 Operas”), where he compared young Pergolesi’s talent to the skills of one of the greatest musical geniuses of all time:
Perhaps only Mozart himself would be able to draw such an abundance of cheerful theatrical thought from the twelve tones of the chromatic scale, one hand clinging to the text, the other creating the endless music spells, and from them in an accurate, efficient manner, vivid characters that we know everything about.
MUSIC DIRECTION KRZYSZTOF GARSTKA
DIRECTOR JITKA STOKALSKA
SET DESIGN MARLENA SKONECZKO
LIGHTING DESIGN KAROLINA GĘBSKA
STAGE MOVEMENT ALISA MAKARENKO
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AGNIESZKA KOZŁOWSKA
II ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SŁAWOMIR JURCZAK
VIDEO PROJECTIONS MAREK ZAMOJSKI
LIGHTING PIOTR RUDZKI
STAGE MANAGER TATIANA HEMPEL-GIERLACH
CAST
SERPINA ALEKSANDRA KLIMCZAK
UBERTO PAWEŁ MICHALCZUK
VESPONE I RAFAŁ KARNICKI
VESPONE II JERZY KLONOWSKI
VESPONE III ALISA MAKARENKO
THE PERIOD INSTRUMENTS ENSEMBLE OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA CAPELLA REGIA POLONA
CONDUCTOR KRZYSZTOF GARSTKA
Duration: approx. 1h
Patron of the Polish Royal Opera
Patron of Opera on Tour
Patron of Opera on Tour
Patron of Opera Workshops
Patron of Opera on Tour
