Time 19:00
The Royal Theatre in the Old Orangery in the Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
BUY TICKET
Russia’s unjustified attack on the territory and people of Ukraine shocked Europe and the entire world. Every day, we watch the terrifying images of the bloody conflict taking place just over the eastern border of Poland painted by the media and the accounts of despairing refugees. In solidarity with the Ukrainians who longingly await their freedom, the Artists of the Polish Royal Opera seek consolation in the brilliant music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, to reflect through his works on the essence of sacrifice in the name of higher values and the deeper meaning of human suffering.
The concert presents three moving compositions of the famous Viennese. The performance opens with the sublime, thought-provoking Kyrie KV 341 – a composition in the mournful key of D minor, created in the last years of the Master’s life. It will be followed by the uniquely expressive Maurerische Trauermusik KV 477, a funeral piece written in the summer of 1785. The heart of the performance is the cantata Davide penitente, which is a special kind of re-elaboration of Mozart’s own earlier work. The composer was not so much inspired by the fragments already used, but literally copied the music from the two previously completed mass movements (Kyrie and Gloria from Mass in C minor, KV 427). However, he added new musical content and supplemented them with two arias and the final cadenza. The Latin text of the liturgy used in the original work was replaced by Italian paraphrases of the biblical David psalms, bringing hope that sorrow, fear and despair will be overcome by peace and light.
PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Kyrie KV 341
Maurerische Trauermusik KV 477
Davide penitente KV 469
Chór Alzai le flebili voci al Signor
Chór Cantiam le glorie
Aria Lungi le cure ingrate
Chór Sii pur sempre benigno, oh Dio
Duet Sorgi, o Signore, e spargi
Aria A te, fra tanti affanni
Chór Se vuoi, puniscimi
Tercet Tutte le mie speranze
Chór: Chi in Dio sol spera – Di tai pericoli non ha timor
MUSIC DIRECTION KAROL SZWECH
DIRECTION, STAGING ANDRZEJ KLIMCZAK
SET DESIGN MARLENA SKONECZKO
LIGHTING DESIGN PAULINA GÓRAL
VIDEO PROJECTIONS MAREK ZAMOJSKI
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR SŁAWOMIR JURCZAK
STAGE MANAGER AGNIESZKA ORLIKOWSKA
PERFORMERS
MARTA BOBERSKA I SOPRANO
GABRIELA KAMIŃSKA II SOPRANO
JACEK SZPONARSKI TENOR
THE CHORUS OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA
THE ORCHESTRA OF THE POLISH ROYAL OPERA
JAKUB SZAFRAŃSKI CHORUS MASTER
KAROL SZWECH CONDUCTOR
