Time 19:00
The Royal Theatre in the Old Orangery in the Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
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God be praised! Yesterday, the 13th, my opera was staged and proved so successful that it is not even possible to describe all the uproar. […] Each aria was invariably followed by a hurricane of applause and cries: “Viva Maestro!”
– this is how eighteen-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart described the premiere of his three-act opera buffa La finta giardiniera in a letter to his mother. The alleged gardener premiered in Munich on the 13th of January 1775, where, according to the composer’s account, it was met with an extremely enthusiastic reception.
The authorship of the libretto, based on the Neapolitan farce L’amor vuol sofferenza by Leonardo Leo, has not been confirmed to this day. However, it is most often attributed to Giuseppe Petrosellini. And although the text is not at the highest literary level, the young Mozart managed to draw the best out of it – both its comic ambiguity and full parodic potential.
Not only the enthusiasm of the audience at the premiere but also the reception of the work in the years that followed can testify to the extraordinary power of the early work of young Mozart. It was quickly adapted for the German stages in the form of a singspiel, and until today it has enjoyed numerous interpretations. Mozart’s famous dramatic genius has already revealed itself in the music of La finta giardiniera: elements characteristic of the opera seria genre perfectly break the comic narrative, prompting singers to demonstrate their acting skills and directors – to come up with creative and original staging solutions.
MUSIC DIRECTOR DAWID RUNTZ
DIRECTED BY JITKA STOKALSKA
SET DESIGNER MARLENA SKONECZKO
CHOREOGRAPHY ALISA MAKARENKO
LIGHTING DESIGN MACIEJ IGIELSKI
VIDEO PROJECTIONS MAREK ZAMOJSKI
LIGHTING PRODUCTION PIOTR RUDZKI
ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR KAROL SZWECH
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SŁAWOMIR JURCZAK
II ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AGNIESZKA KOZŁOWSKA
STAGE MANAGER AGNIESZKA ORLIKOWSKA
CAST
DON ANCHISE, PODESTA MACIEJ GRONEK
LA MARCHESA VIOLANTE (SANDRINA) OLGA PASIECZNIK
IL CONTINO BELFIORE SYLWESTER SMULCZYŃSKI
ARMINDA AGNIESZKA KOZŁOWSKA
IL CAVALIER RAMIRO ANNA RADZIEJEWSKA
SERPETTA MARTA BOBERSKA
ROBERTO (NARDO) WITOLD ŻOŁADKIEWICZ
MIMES SŁAWOMIR JURCZAK, JERZY KLONOWSKI, RAFAŁ KARNICKI, MACIEJ JAN KRAŚNIEWSKI
THE ORCHESTRA OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA
HARPSICHORD DAGMARA DUDZIŃSKA
CONDUCTOR KAROL SZWECH