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The Portrait - The Pozna? Opera Theatre at Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Moniuszko Auditorium

Dates: (1/16/2015 )

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Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Moniuszko Auditorium


Plac Teatralny 1
Warszawa,Warszawa 00-950

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Phone: +48 22 692 02 00

Tickets: PLN 66.00 - PLN 160.00

Running Time: 2 hrs 40 min., including one intermission

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The project is financed from a designated subsidy of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

According to many experts of new music in the Soviet Union, after Sergei Prokofiev's death, it was Mieczys?aw Weinberg who could be considered the most interesting composer after Dmitri Shostakovich. Apart from Alexandre Tansman and Andrzej Panufnik, Weinberg was one of the few Polish composers who, living in exile, managed to interest the most outstanding performers in his music. His compositions include several dozen symphonies, concerts, choral pieces, chamber pieces and movie scores (including for The Cranes Are Flying). In terms of the opera, he is the author of as many as seven pieces – The Passenger, to the libretto based on a short story by Zofia Posmysz, D’Artagnan in love with the libretto drawing on Alexandre Dumas’ novel, Well done! with the text inspired by a short story by Sholem Aleichem, and other pieces based on the works of Bernard Shaw, Fyodor Dostoyevsky or Nikolai Gogol.

It was actually Nikolai Gogol who wrote the story that inspired the libretto to The Portrait. The first performance of this opera was held in 1983 at the National Theatre in Brno. Other adaptations had not been attempted before the Bregenzer Festspiele (2010) directed by John Fulljames and the performances at the Nancy Opera and the North Theatre in Leeds directed by David Pountney – the same director who will now present his take on The Portrait in Pozna?.

Cast and Creative team for The Portrait - The Pozna? Opera Theatre at Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Moniuszko Auditorium

Conductor: Gabriel Chmura
Direction: David Pountney
Set Designer: Dan Potra
Lighting Designer: Linus Fellbom
Revival: Anelia Kadieva

Cast:

Czartkov - Jacek Laszczkowski
Nikita - Jaromir Trafankowski
Art Dealer / Landlady / Journalist / Professor / Earl
- Stanis?aw Kuflyuk
Lamplighter / Nobleman - Piotr Friebe
District Chief / General / Dignitary - Rafa? Korpik
Female Seller / Lady-in-Writing - Monika Mych-Nowicka
Ist Seller / Ist Waiter / Turk - Marek Szyma?ski
IInd Seller - Karol Bocha?ski
IInd Waiter / Cavalry Officer - Kornel Maciejowski
IIIrd Seller / Dignitary - Andrzej Ogórkiewicz
Noble Woman - Olga Maroszek
Lisa - Galina Kuklina
Psyche - Maria Marcinkiewicz-Górna
Blind Flautist - Sebastian ?ukaszewski
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