TEATR WIELKI - OPERA NARODOWA, MONIUSZKO AUDITORIUM

Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa has prepared a ballet show that is unprecedented on an international level. No ballet company has ever decided to present ...

The Romantics loved monsters. And we also love monsters. We are just too ashamed to admit it. It’s all because monstrosity intrigues us. How is ...

This is Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet in the best ever version which has enjoyed enduring popularity at the famous Royal Ballet in London for many years. ...

What a pity that John Barth has already used The Floating Opera title! It would have been perfect for Mariusz Treli?ski’s performance. Rain and draperies ...

With this ballet, Krzysztof Pastor won the hearts of Polish audiences and critics. “With its theme of deathdefying love, Wagner’s intoxicating music and the largest ...

In the race between the Achilles of actualization and the turtle of the national opera tradition the latter may have a chance. The old fashioned ...

Interesting how nightingales have fallen out of fashion… But not Stravinski’s nightingale, because that small opera inspired by Andersen‘s fable and Chinese tales is concerned ...

The left brain hemisphere is said to be ruled by logic, the right one by emotions and intuition. Pawe? Szyma?ski’s Qudsja Zaher speaks directly to ...

The Torture Garden as terrible as in Octave Mirbeau’s novel where fear, desire and ecstasy are expressed in trance-like singinging – such is Puccini’s last ...

Shakespeare’s output has frequently inspired choreographers. That is why the Polish National Ballet will realize a repertoire project preceding the celebrations of the 400th anniversary ...

The French had for the courtesans a special, absolutely non offensive name „les grandes horizontales” as they used to lie on leopard skin covered chaise ...

The mysterious Emilia Marty sings: ”I have been living for 337 years. I was born in 1585.”. So it is 1922 when Karel ?apek placed ...

The Old and New Testament - the holy books of European civilization, an extraordinary record of the beliefs and mythical history of humankind, a collection ...

Krzysztof Pastor’s ballet And the Rain Will Pass... is the his very personal artistic statement. After a long stay abroad, he noticed more scars and ...

If king Henry Valois had not escaped from Poland his daughter would not have married Philip II king of Spain but Ivan the Terrible Tsar ...

Music by Rodgers, Richard; Arranged by Paul Yoder...

In the programme arias, duets and scenes from Giuseppe Verdi's operas: Luisa Miller, Il trovatore, Don Carlo, Rigoletto, Aida, Macbeth, La forza del destino and ...

The great German Romantic E.T.A. Hoffmann spent a significant part of his life among Poles. He had a Polish wife, he wrote and worked in ...

Onegin’s contemporaries felt offended by the irony, which the poem’s narrator, the title hero, used to chip away at the world with. Half a century ...

A heart-breaking melodrama stolen from Pierre Lotti by John L. Long from whom David Belasco nipped it and then was taken over by Puccini’s librettists ...

Over 30 operatic roles. Calendar filled several years in advance. 20 minute lasting ovations. La Scala, Covent Garden, Opéra Bastille, Zurich Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Salzburg ...

The ballet evening Echoes of Time consists of the works of three choreographers from the turn of the century created to energetic contemporary music. All ...

The young choreographer who wrote the script and designed the production, Robert Bondara, came up with the idea for this piece some years ago. The ...