MEETING WITH CHRISTMAS CAROLS / WORKSHOP FOR...
The string family – violin, viola, and cello – invites you to holiday music-making. We will learn the difference between a pastoral and a carol and make decorations for our carol [...]
2024/2025
MEETING WITH HISTORY. WHY DOES THE PUSS WEAR...
Boots and trainers, slippers and wellies. Do you know them all? We’ll explore where a shoe has a toe and where it has a tongue – and see if it has a story to tell us. We’ll take a closer [...]
MEETING WITH HISTORY. WHY DOES THE PUSS WEAR...
Boots and trainers, slippers and wellies. Do you know them all? We’ll explore where a shoe has a toe and where it has a tongue – and see if it has a story to tell us. We’ll take a closer [...]
ACIS AND GALATEA / GEORG FRIEDRICH HAENDEL
Stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses became the inspiration for many Baroque works. That is hardly surprising, since the ancient Roman poem abounds in delightful stories full of symbolism, and [...]
MONIUSZKO – SCHUBERT – MAHLER
“It is an example of truly romantic expression, extensive and non-obvious form reminiscent of a ballad, and beautiful melody characteristic of the composer” – wrote Ignacy [...]
AFFETTI BAROCCHI
How many feelings a Baroque musical narrative can convey, and how many shades of emotion lie hidden in its expressive vocal and instrumental music! The concert program, which features [...]
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. [...]
ACIS AND GALATEA / GEORG FRIEDRICH HAENDEL
Stories from Ovid’s Metamorphoses became the inspiration for many Baroque works. That is hardly surprising, since the ancient Roman poem abounds in delightful stories full of symbolism, and [...]
MESSIAH / GEORG FRIEDRICH HAENDEL
The Oratorio Messiah stands out among the many works of G. F. Haendel. Undoubtedly, it was its power of expression and the universal nature of its message that caused Messiah to be deemed a [...]
SYMPHONY NO. 9 IN D MINOR, OP. 125 / LUDWIG...
May of 2024 marks two hundred years since the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s famous Ninth Symphony. Although the composer had already left his hometown of Bonn and moved to [...]
ARTISTS FOR FLOOD VICTIMS. CHARITY CONCERT
In the face of the natural disaster that hit southern Poland, the Polish Royal Opera and the Royal Łazienki Museum have taken a joint initiative to organize a charity concert. All proceeds will [...]
REQUIEM / WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
FREE ADMISSION. Requiem will be performed during the Holy Mass. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem is undoubtedly one of the most famous pieces in the funeral mass genre. It is the last, [...]
HI§TORY / MICHAŁ DOBRZYŃSKI – II PREMIERE
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 drama [...]
HOME SONGBOOK / STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO
Stanisław Moniuszko – “the father of the Polish national opera”, a bard, distinguished educator, and composer, who has been awarded many honorary titles. Apart from being [...]
HI§TORY / MICHAŁ DOBRZYŃSKI – WORLD PREMIERE
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 [...]
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. [...]
IN FESTO PURIFICATIONIS – VASA MASS FOR THE...
Since the early days, music has been an integral part of the Holy Mass – the most important liturgy of the Western Church. Initially, it appeared in the form of chorale songs, then it took [...]
MUSIC AT THE COURT OF MARIE CASIMIRE
Marie Casimire d’Arquien, or Queen Marysieńka, left Poland after the death of her beloved husband John III Sobieski. She went to Rome, where at the beginning of the 18th century, in the [...]
ITALIAN MUSIC AT THE VASA COURT
The reign of the Vasa dynasty in the Republic of Poland was a period of flourishing of culture, including music. Under the watchful eye of the Italian masters brought to the country at the [...]
POLACCA TRIONFANTE / BACH – HAENDEL. ARIAS...
The concert is part of the Mid Europe Early Music Festival. Johann Adolph Scheibe, an 18th-century theorist and composer, listed the Polish style as the fourth – next to Italian, French, [...]
