2024/2025

Meeting with COSTUMES. Grimacing garments /...

Thanks to it, we can instantly recognize the character appearing on stage. Witch, queen, knight, or dragon? The costume tells you right away. It is one of the most captivating and exciting [...]

THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA / BENJAMIN BRITTEN

The 1946 opera The Rape of Lucretia marks a turn in Benjamin Britten’s (1913-1976) body of work towards more chamber-like and intimate musical forms. A small cast – both vocal and [...]

NIGHT OF THE RAVENS / ZYGMUNT KRAUZE

Work commissioned by the Polish Royal Opera. Dziady – Widma – a stage cantata by Stanisław Moniuszko to the words of the second part of the famous drama by Adam Mickiewicz- was the [...]

IDOMENEO / WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

“Who could believe that such great things could be hidden in so small a head?” This enthusiastic opinion about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s [...]

DIDO AND AENEAS / HENRY PURCELL

Dido and Aeneas is the very first dramatic work of the “British Orpheus” – Henry Purcell. The circumstances of the creation of this three-act opera to Nahum Tate’s [...]

HALKA / STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO (VILNIUS VERSION)

I hope to send you in a few weeks […] excerpts from my Halka, which I am publishing in spite of people’s ill will, in eternal memory that there used to be madmen who wrote Polish operas. [...]

HALKA / STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO (VILNIUS VERSION)

I hope to send you in a few weeks […] excerpts from my Halka, which I am publishing in spite of people’s ill will, in eternal memory that there used to be madmen who wrote Polish operas. [...]

HI§TORY / MICHAŁ DOBRZYŃSKI

Work commissioned by the Polish Royal Opera. Opera in two acts.Adaptation of the libretto: Michał Dobrzyński Based on the manuscripts (including previously unpublished fragments) of the play [...]

THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA / BENJAMIN BRITTEN

The 1946 opera The Rape of Lucretia marks a turn in Benjamin Britten’s (1913-1976) body of work towards more chamber-like and intimate musical forms. A small cast – both vocal and [...]

IMENEO / GEORG FRIEDRICH HAENDEL (STAGED...

The first drafts of the opera Imeneo were created as early as 1738. Haendel gave the final shape to the composition two years later, shortly before its world premiere scheduled for the 22nd of [...]

NIGHT OF THE RAVENS / ZYGMUNT KRAUZE

Work commissioned by the Polish Royal Opera. Dziady – Widma – a stage cantata by Stanisław Moniuszko to the words of the second part of the famous drama by Adam Mickiewicz- was the [...]

Meeting with INSPIRATION: Imagination, or the...

Where do ideas come from? From the head, of course. But for them to get there, you need something magical: inspiration. It’s a spark that ignites our imagination and allows us to be [...]

Meeting with INSPIRATION: Imagination, or the...

Where do ideas come from? From the head, of course. But for them to get there, you need something magical: inspiration. It’s a spark that ignites our imagination and allows us to be [...]

MUSICA SACRA / ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI

Alessandro Scarlatti is best known for his excellent operas, yet his catalogue of works also includes a number of religious pieces. Rarely performed today, they are a testament to his mastery of [...]

MONIUSZKO – KARŁOWICZ – NOSKOWSKI / CONCERT...

The overture to the opera Paria is one of the most mature orchestral works by Stanisław Moniuszko. Positioned within the timeline right after the scenic prologue, it is musically closely tied to [...]

AROUND MOZART / CHAMBER CONCERT

The evening filled with the music of the genius of the Classical era will open with the dazzling elegance and mastery of the Allegro from Eine kleine Nachtmusik – arguably the most famous [...]

Meeting with ANIMALS. HOW A CUCKOO, A CRICKET...

For centuries, composers have been imitating the sounds of nature, transcribing birdsong or the chirping of crickets for instruments and voices. Nature – especially in spring, as it awakens [...]

Meeting with ANIMALS. HOW A CUCKOO, A CRICKET...

For centuries, composers have been imitating the sounds of nature, transcribing birdsong or the chirping of crickets for instruments and voices. Nature – especially in spring, as it awakens [...]

AROUND MOZART / CHAMBER CONCERT

Divertimento means entertainment or fun in Italian. This is also the nature of the early composition written in 1772 in Salzburg and marked with the number KV 138 that inaugurates an evening [...]

GRIEG – SOŁTYS

Edvard Grieg completed work on the music for Henrik Ibsen’s brilliant dramatic poem Peer Gynt in 1875. The premiere of the piece the following year proved to be an incredible success, and [...]
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