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 [...]
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, [...]
The event is part of the 27th Festival of Polish Composers. The Haunted Manor by Stanisław Moniuszko was produced by the Polish Royal Opera at a very special moment. On the one hand, the premiere [...]
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. [...]
Tickets are available on the NOSPR website. The concert will be broadcast on Polish Radio Channel Two as part of the cycle Filharmonia Dwójki. The broadcast will begin at 19:00 and will be hosted [...]
The concert is part of the celebrations of Miłosz Year. The year 2024 was announced by the Senate of the Republic of Poland as the Year of Miłosz. This is a tribute to the Polish winner of the [...]
“The ceremony of innocence is drowned” – this ominous quote from the famous poem The Second Coming by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats opens the second act of Benjamin [...]
The concert is part of the 19th International Grzegorz Gorczycki Festival. There is certainly no place in the world where a man may travel with greater pleasure and advantage than in Italy. With [...]
“The ceremony of innocence is drowned” – this ominous quote from the famous poem The Second Coming by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats opens the second act of Benjamin [...]
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951) played a key role in shaping the theory and history of 20th-century music by creating and promoting the strict dodecaphonic technique, yet it is his youthful [...]
Prince Kazimierz, the title hero of the oratorio, ruled the Republic of Poland as the governor of King Kazimierz Jagiellończyk in the years 1481-1483. He died of tuberculosis the following year, [...]
It should come as no surprise that Aaron Hill, the director of the Queen’s Theatre in London, when wanting to introduce Italian opera to English audiences, chose a fragment from the famous [...]
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, [...]
What a strange land Prince Tamino found himself in! Although he is saved from a terrible dragon by three mysterious Ladies, the jolly birdcatcher Papageno takes credit for his rescue. Will he be [...]