BAROQUE FESTIVAL. SCENE BUFFE / ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI

Although Alessandro Scarlatti is known mainly for his opere serie, he did not shy away from introducing comedic elements even in works based on serious themes. This famous composer often embellished the dramatic plot with parodic scenes, which gives his pieces a certain lightness. Scarlatti’s catalogue of works also includes a number of independent comic opera scenes. They played the role of a humorous interlude performed during the break of a more serious performance. Intermedia of this type usually required the participation of two soloists, accompanied by a small orchestra.

These short dramatic forms – despite the change in their function and staging concept – have not lost their relevance. The humorous scenes and dialogues are a reflection of human characters and vices, while love affairs, jealousy, betrayal and deception are the elements that make these works universal.

“At the end of the seventies […], I learned about the existence of a manuscript containing Alessandro Scarlatti’s comedic intermedia from the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries in the Sächsisch Landesbibliothek in Dresden. Luckily, soon after, I was passing through this hospitable city and, thanks to the courtesy of local librarians-musicologists, I received, in exchange for Polish manuscripts, a microfilm of 10 intermedia for two voices accompanied by a string ensemble and a harpsichord”.

This is how Stefan Sutkowski recalled bringing Alessandro Scarlatti’s comic intermedia to Poland in the 1970s. From the ten works contained in the received manuscript, three were selected at that time: Gl’inganni felici, Daphne and Il pastor di Corinto. And so, they became the foundation for the creation of the performance entitled Scene buffe, which is returning to the stage of the Polish Royal Opera.

MUSIC DIRECTOR KRZYSZTOF GARSTKA

DIRECTED BY  JITKA STOKALSKA
SET DESIGN  MARLENA SKONECZKO
CHOREOGRAPHY PRZEMYSŁAW ŚLIWA
LIGHTING PIOTR RUDZKI
VIDEO PROJEKCTIONS MAREK ZAMOJSKI
SET CONSTRUCTION  RYSZARD KŁOSEK
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR  SŁAWOMIR JURCZAK
II ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AGNIESZKA KOZŁOWSKA
STAGE MANAGER  AGNIESZKA ORLIKOWSKA

CAST

GL’INGANNI FELICI
LIBRETTO: APOSTOLO ZENO

TISBE IWONA LUBOWICZ
BRENNO ROBERT SZPRĘGIEL

DAFNI
LIBRETTO: FRANCESCO MARIA PAGLIA
AFTER E. MANFREDI

SELVAGGIA  MARTA BOBERSKA
DAMETA  SŁAWOMIR JURCZAK

IL PASTORE DI CORINTO
LIBRETTO: FRANCESCO MARIA PAGLIA

SERPILLA  JULITA MIROSŁAWSKA
SERPOLLO WITOLD ŻOŁĄDKIEWICZ

SOLOISTS OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA

THE PERIOD INSTRUMENTS ENSEMBLE OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA CAPELLA REGIA POLONA

Duration: 1 h 10 mins (with a 20-minute intermission)

The seats in the auditorium are not numbered.

Performance in the original language version.

PLEASE NOTE: the entrance to the Royal Theatre in the Łazienki Park is located in Agrykola street.

One hour before the performance as well as for an hour after it is finished, the audience can use the electric cart running between the Royal Theater and the Łazienki Gate at the corner of Myśliwiecka / Agrykola streets.

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• If you are not feeling well, are ill, or had contact with an infected person – stay at home.
• Please, take a face mask with you. On entering the Theatre building, you are obliged to wear a mask covering your mouth and nose.
• At the entrance to the building, please have your temperature taken.
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• Please come earlier – latecomers will not be allowed into the auditorium.

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• Disinfectants are available at the entrance to the building.
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• The common spaces and sanitary rooms are disinfected regularly.
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