Time 18:00
The Royal Theatre in the Old Orangery in the Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw
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A few days before the world premiere of the opera HI§TORY, whose libretto is based on manuscripts (including previously unpublished fragments) of the play Historia (Operetta) by Witold Gombrowicz set to music composed by Michał Dobrzyński, we invite you to a meeting devoted to the work of Witold Gombrowicz and the stories that accompanied the creative process during the preparation of the performance.
The debate will be attended by directors Maciej Wojtyszko and Jakub Krofta, composer Michał Dobrzyński, and a special guest – professor Mariola Odzimkowska – assistant to Rita Gombrowicz, a lecturer at the University of Paris and an expert in Gombrowicz’s works and unknown facts from his life.
Editor Agata Kwiecińska will guide us through the stories about the writer’s life.
After the meeting, we will lift the veil of secrecy and invite you to take a peek at a rehearsal for the performance.
“(…) it is hardly surprising that the composer risked such presence of the author and the hero on stage. The piece itself, developed by Michał Dobrzyński thanks to the courtesy of Mrs. Rita Gombrowicz, is a youthful work. A work, in which the author searches for his own voice in the face of family, society, and above all – History. The intuition of this sensitive, terrified artist is astonishing – one who feels that at any moment he could be reshaped, molded, or even crushed by external forces like History, yet still finds the courage to mock them.
And the power of this mockery, this rebellion against a form that does not listen to the voice of a lonely, defenseless man, is yet another proof of Gombrowicz’s incredible perceptiveness.”
Jakub Krofta/Maciej Wojtyszko on HI§TORY
Their complexity and defiance are intriguing at first contact, but this is only – despite their extraordinary nature – the external layer. In fact, in his work Gombrowicz touches the depth, the very essence of the complexity of human nature and human existence, imprinting its impenetrable character in the recipient’s imagination. Actually, he approaches what – in my opinion – cannot be defined. In this sense, his work is very close to art, and music in particular. It uncovers a part of the truth about human nature and, at the same time, reveals even more clearly what we did not know we could not see.
Michał Dobrzyński – composer
The debate will be held in Polish.
