TEATR WIELKI - OPERA NARODOWA, MONIUSZKO AUDITORIUM

Cork Opera House, through the generous support of the Arts Council of Ireland, is honoured to present the Irish Premiere of Piazzola’s Tango Opera Maria ...

La Forza del Destino Composer: Giuseppe Verdi ACT I. Seville, mid-eighteenth century. After the Marquis of Calatrava bids good night to his daughter, Leonora di ...

The heart is a flower blooming in the mystery of the night. A summer affair turns to winter chill when a country girl with tender ...

La Forza del Destino Composer: Giuseppe Verdi ACT I. Seville, mid-eighteenth century. After the Marquis of Calatrava bids good night to his daughter, Leonora di ...

Stagings of Stanislaw Moniuszko’s operas usually leave the viewer with a sense of deep dissatisfaction. Directors usually either tend to follow the once popular path ...

Act I Scene 1. The Sacred Forest, outside the temple Warriors returning from the great tiger hunt are joined by Solor, the noblest warrior in ...

Act I The early 1960s, on an ocean liner. Watching over the scene is a chorus who sometimes take part as prisoners, passengers or officers, ...

Aida has long formed part of the group of most popular operas of all time. The title maintains its status despite belonging to the genre ...

Stagings of Stanislaw Moniuszko’s operas usually leave the viewer with a sense of deep dissatisfaction. Directors usually either tend to follow the once popular path ...

John Cranko is a classic twentieth century choreographer, but this light-hearted comedy of his based on Shakespeare is still considered one of the best in ...

The virtuosic Elina Garanca sings Sesto in Mozart’s drama set in ancient Rome. Giuseppe Filianoti is the noble Tito and Barbara Frittoli is Vitellia, in ...

New Year’s performances by the W?adys?aw Skoraczewski Artos Music Society have become a yearly repertoire tradition. The choir, which is affiliated with the Teatr Wielki ...

From the famous triptych Rigoletto — La traviata — Il trovatore, the first opera is without a doubt the most attractive theatrically. It is mostly ...

The story unfolds in Warsaw in the early 19th century. Famous German Romantic author E.T.A. Hoffmann lived here briefly. Some people believe that the tale ...

A great love story against the background of which a clash of cultures and attitudes makes itself manifest. A young American ladies’ man, Pinkerton, marries ...

A guest performance held in association with the Art and Its Time Foundation and the Centre for Contemporary Art – Ujazdowski Castle as part of ...

T he legendary lover spent a few months in Warsaw in 1765-1766. He moved in the choicest company, including that of King Stanis?aw August. He ...

Paul Taylor has been called “the greatest living American choreographer” (San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle). Known for its daring innovation, Taylor’s choreography combines the grace ...

Powder Her Face, an ‘opera-portrait’ written in 1995 by the then 24-year-old Thomas Adès, is an abbreviated and only slightly masked in the libretto operatic ...

A court ballet called ‘Don Quichotte’ was danced at the royal Louvre as early as 1614 (!). After that, themes from Cervantes’ work found a ...

An amazing work by a 29-year-old, only third on the long list of Verdi’s operatic achievements, and not even counted among his greatest accomplishments. Though ...

He’s rich, handsome, hungry for ever new erotic conquests; she’s beautiful, poor, trusting, madly in love. They are the protagonists of a story as old ...

Romeo, Juliet and their love doomed due to an unending conflict: we are all familiar with the moving story from William Shakespeare’s play and Sergei ...

Maria Stuarda is the next after Anna Bolena and not the last piece proving Donizetti’s fascination with Tudor England. The opera’s history was shaped by ...

One of the most beautiful lyric comedies in contemporary ballet repertoire. The complicated adventures of Shakespeare’s characters in the real and dream worlds are told ...

This is the oldest work that Mariusz Treli?ski has taken on in his 15 years as an opera director. He chose the Viennese version of ...

This show is a culmination of Treli?ski’s long-time fascination with the “superfluous man” character, a hero of 19th-century Russian literature whom Treli?ski found in both ...

Strauss Festival Orchestra Strauss Festival Ballet Ensemble Return to the gaiety and glamour of 19th century Vienna with this sparkling gala concert of famous waltzes, ...

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 ...

It is exactly 100 years since World War I broke out. What conclusions did we draw from those four years of fighting and millions of ...

An interesting musical project that shows the influence of the Polish mountains, highland music and tradition on the works of prominent Polish composers: Karol Szymanowski, ...

His appearance in the piano firmament almost 60 years ago was compared with the exploding stardom of Glenn Gould. Claiming that the globe had at ...

Eugeniusz Knapik is one of the most important contemporary Polish composers, a student of Henryk Miko?aj Górecki, a classicist of modernity. His opera trilogy, created ...

To say that she is extraordinarily talented, endowed with a unique voice, and stunningly beautiful? That she sang arias from La Traviata when she was ...

Marius Petipa – the prominent 19th-century ballet master and choreographer of French origin, creator of over 50 ballets which still form the backbone of the ...

Regarded as one of the leading orchestras in the world, it is the oldest of London’s symphonic orchestras. It was established in 1904 by a ...

A simple story of love that Mariusz Treli?ski elevates to the rank of myth. On the one hand, it’s a tale about love faithful until ...

In 1984, at the invitation of Waldemar D?browski, managing director of the Stanis?aw I. Witkiewicz STUDIO Centre for the Arts in Warsaw, and Franciszek Wybra?czyk, ...

Willy Decker is undoubtedly one of the most important opera directors in the world. His plays are staged from Paris, Vienna, London, through Brussels, Madrid, ...

The second edition of a project presenting the most important and boldest discoveries of contemporary Polish music and theatre. The ‘P’ Project: P for Poland, ...

There is probably no other piece of music written for ballet more famous than this one. All the more so because 100 years after the ...

A mythical tale about the confrontation between good and evil, impossible love, loneliness and longing – topics which fascinated the composer to such a degree ...

Shakespeare immortalized them (1597), some used them to try to enter the pantheon, including Vincenzo Bellini (1830), Hector Berlioz (1839), and Charles Gounod (1867). More ...

A national opera written by a composer deprived of his country (but not his nation!) at a time of waiting for a watershed and dwelling ...

At opera houses around the world, Giuseppe Verdi is one of the most frequently performed composers. No wonder: his music is always an exhilarating feast ...

Tradition at its absolute best. Nabucco, just like Aida, requires historical detail that delights the eye of the audience. It cannot be different in this ...

“Don’t look back”, the mythical gods said to Orpheus. “Don’t leave”, Mariusz Treli?ski’s Orpheus seems to be saying. (Orpheus is rather like the Orpheus from ...

It’s strange that The Nightingale (1914) – a musical fairy tale created for the pleasure of a child‘s imagination – was composed by Igor Stravinsky, ...

One of the most anticipated pieces of contemporary Polish music in recent years, commissioned by the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera. Qudsja Zaher is ...

Three choreographies, three outstanding artists from the turn of the century, and pieces of music that have little in common but which still get miraculously ...

When Alexandre Dumas (père) finished reading The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A Hoffmann, he called it “the most beautiful fairy tale”, besides immediately ...

Iolanta Lyric opera in one act Libretto: Modest Tchaikovsky after Henrik Hertz In the original Russian Co-production: Metropolitan Opera, New York BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE Opera in ...

In 2013, to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Witold Lutos?awski as well as the round, 80th birthday anniversaries of two other prominent ...

An interesting musical project that shows the influence of the Polish mountains, highland music and tradition on the works of prominent Polish composers: Karol Szymanowski, ...

The tomb of history. In it, as if in a mirror of times past, are repeated and processed the fates of bygone rulers, in which ...

“Let’s dance to Bach”, said Krzysztof Pastor, Choreographer and director of the Polish National Ballet, in 2010 and thus proposed a unique choreographic quartet. Concerto ...

When Krzysztof Penderecki wrote the St. Luke Passion in the mid-1960s, he was concurrently engrossed with reading about the Inquisition. Out of this fascination, an ...

Jubilee held under the honorary patronage of Polish President Bronis?aw Komorowski A concert of folk and national music, songs and dances, featuring the ensemble’s soloists, ...

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 ...

Tradition combined with modernity. The orchestral suite by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (the world of the royal court), next to him the cosmic György Ligeti (the world of ...

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 ...