26 lutego
Senso - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Marco Tutino
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
Co-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo
He didn’t love her, she was not a patriot. He was a soldier of the enemy’s army, she was passionately in love with him and didn’t mind. At least for a while. Marco Tutino’s opera Senso, commissioned by the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, was first presented at the season opening in January 2011. Already half a century ago Luchino Visconti made his famous film of the same title. In both cases, the inspiration came from Camillo Boito’s novella from 1883. In Venice under Austrian occupation, a tragedy unfolds: Countess Livia falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant. When she discovers he is unfaithful, she denounces him as a deserter, thus condemning him to death. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Gerd Schaller
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director, Set and Costume Designer - Hugo de Ana
Choreography - Luigi Neri
Venue:
6.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Moniuszko Auditorium
Warsaw, Poland
28 lutego
Senso - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Marco Tutino
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
Co-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo
He didn’t love her, she was not a patriot. He was a soldier of the enemy’s army, she was passionately in love with him and didn’t mind. At least for a while. Marco Tutino’s opera Senso, commissioned by the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, was first presented at the season opening in January 2011. Already half a century ago Luchino Visconti made his famous film of the same title. In both cases, the inspiration came from Camillo Boito’s novella from 1883. In Venice under Austrian occupation, a tragedy unfolds: Countess Livia falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant. When she discovers he is unfaithful, she denounces him as a deserter, thus condemning him to death. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Gerd Schaller
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director, Set and Costume Designer - Hugo de Ana
Choreography - Luigi Neri
Venue:
7.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Moniuszko Auditorium
Warsaw, Poland
1 marca
Senso - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Marco Tutino
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
Co-production: Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Teatro Massimo di Palermo
He didn’t love her, she was not a patriot. He was a soldier of the enemy’s army, she was passionately in love with him and didn’t mind. At least for a while. Marco Tutino’s opera Senso, commissioned by the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, was first presented at the season opening in January 2011. Already half a century ago Luchino Visconti made his famous film of the same title. In both cases, the inspiration came from Camillo Boito’s novella from 1883. In Venice under Austrian occupation, a tragedy unfolds: Countess Livia falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant. When she discovers he is unfaithful, she denounces him as a deserter, thus condemning him to death. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Gerd Schaller
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director, Set and Costume Designer - Hugo de Ana
Choreography - Luigi Neri
Venue:
7.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Moniuszko Auditorium
Warsaw, Poland
3 marca
Stockport Symphony Orchestra (www >>)
Stockport, UK
Mahler - Symphony No. 3
Venue:
7.30pm, Stockport Town Hall
Stockport, UK
8 marca
Gävle Symfoniorkester (www >>)
Gävle, Sweden
Bacewicz - Ouverture
Clara Schumann - Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 7
Amy Beach - Symphony in E minor, Op.32 'Gaelic'
Venue:
Gävle Concert Hall
Gävle, Sweden
4 kwietnia
Nabucco - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Giuseppe Verdi
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Polish National Opera, Polish National Ballet
Written when the composer was not yet thirty, Nabucco was Verdi’s third opera, but the first to bring him fame and immediately place him among the most famous musicians. The libretto by Temistocle Solera, loosely based on events from the Old Testament, tells the story of the legendary king of Babylon, Nebuchodnezzar, leading his army against the Hebrews. Solera combines biblical themes with typically operatic melodramatic ones, and the conflict unfolds on many planes: political, family, and religious. Issues such as opposition to injustice, oppression and violence reflected Verdi’s democratic views, and the political allusions were obvious at the time the opera was written. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Andrzej Straszyński
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Marek Weiss
Set Design - Andrzej Kreutz Majewski
Costumes - Jacek Majewski
Choreography - Emil Wesołowski
Chorus Master - Bogdan Gola
Lights - Stanisław Zięba
Venue:
7.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Moniuszko Auditorium
Warsaw, Poland
28 kwietnia
Medeamaterial - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Pascal Dusapin
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
Pascal Dusapin is a composer who receives commissions from such opera houses as La Scala, the Paris Opera, and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. The fabric of his oeuvre is culture in a broad sense, from antiquity to contemporary times. The opera Medeamaterial from 1992 is based on a text by Heiner Müller, the greatest 20th-century German playwright after Brecht. It is a contemporary take on the myth of Medea and Jason. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Franc Ollu
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Barbara Wysocka
Venue:
8.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Chamber Hall
Warsaw, Poland
29 kwietnia
Medeamaterial - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Pascal Dusapin
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
Pascal Dusapin is a composer who receives commissions from such opera houses as La Scala, the Paris Opera, and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. The fabric of his oeuvre is culture in a broad sense, from antiquity to contemporary times. The opera Medeamaterial from 1992 is based on a text by Heiner Müller, the greatest 20th-century German playwright after Brecht. It is a contemporary take on the myth of Medea and Jason. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Franc Ollu
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Barbara Wysocka
Venue:
4.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Chamber Hall
Warsaw, Poland
4 maja
Medeamaterial - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Pascal Dusapin
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
Pascal Dusapin is a composer who receives commissions from such opera houses as La Scala, the Paris Opera, and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. The fabric of his oeuvre is culture in a broad sense, from antiquity to contemporary times. The opera Medeamaterial from 1992 is based on a text by Heiner Müller, the greatest 20th-century German playwright after Brecht. It is a contemporary take on the myth of Medea and Jason. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Franc Ollu
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Barbara Wysocka
Venue:
8.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Chamber Hall
Warsaw, Poland
5 maja
Medeamaterial - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Pascal Dusapin
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
Pascal Dusapin is a composer who receives commissions from such opera houses as La Scala, the Paris Opera, and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. The fabric of his oeuvre is culture in a broad sense, from antiquity to contemporary times. The opera Medeamaterial from 1992 is based on a text by Heiner Müller, the greatest 20th-century German playwright after Brecht. It is a contemporary take on the myth of Medea and Jason. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Franc Ollu
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Barbara Wysocka
Venue:
8.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Chamber Hall
Warsaw, Poland
6 maja
Medeamaterial - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Pascal Dusapin
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
Pascal Dusapin is a composer who receives commissions from such opera houses as La Scala, the Paris Opera, and the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. The fabric of his oeuvre is culture in a broad sense, from antiquity to contemporary times. The opera Medeamaterial from 1992 is based on a text by Heiner Müller, the greatest 20th-century German playwright after Brecht. It is a contemporary take on the myth of Medea and Jason. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Franc Ollu
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Barbara Wysocka
Venue:
4.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Chamber Hall
Warsaw, Poland
26 maja
The Nightingale - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Igor Stravinsky
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
This is actually a choreo-opera, aiming to delight with both its music and the beauty of its movement, colour, and choreographic gesture. This performance by the Mariinsky Theatre, presenting uniquely stunning visual images and perfect performance, has been a permanent item in the great theatre’s repertoire for many years. Stravinsky was the inventor of the themes for many of his stage pieces and the joint or sole author of the librettos. This concern for the literary and philosophical foundation of his works stemmed from his broader aesthetic and ethical concept, its essence being to restore the severed connection between Good and Beauty. The story of the marvellous bird whose wondrous song entertained, moved, and healed people is an excellent expression of this concept’s core idea. “And the nightingale sang so beautifully that tears came into the emperor’s eyes, and when they flowed down his cheeks the nightingale sang even more delightfully, and it went straight to his heart”, wrote Hans Christian Andersen in his fairy tale. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Modestas Pitrenas
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Aleksander Petrov
Set Designer - Vladimir Firer
Venue:
7.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Moniuszko Auditorium
Warsaw, Poland
27 maja
The Nightingale - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Igor Stravinsky
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
This is actually a choreo-opera, aiming to delight with both its music and the beauty of its movement, colour, and choreographic gesture. This performance by the Mariinsky Theatre, presenting uniquely stunning visual images and perfect performance, has been a permanent item in the great theatre’s repertoire for many years. Stravinsky was the inventor of the themes for many of his stage pieces and the joint or sole author of the librettos. This concern for the literary and philosophical foundation of his works stemmed from his broader aesthetic and ethical concept, its essence being to restore the severed connection between Good and Beauty. The story of the marvellous bird whose wondrous song entertained, moved, and healed people is an excellent expression of this concept’s core idea. “And the nightingale sang so beautifully that tears came into the emperor’s eyes, and when they flowed down his cheeks the nightingale sang even more delightfully, and it went straight to his heart”, wrote Hans Christian Andersen in his fairy tale. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Modestas Pitrenas
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Aleksander Petrov
Set Designer - Vladimir Firer
Venue:
12.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Moniuszko Auditorium
Warsaw, Poland
31 maja
Sinfonia Iuventus (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
Beethoven - Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Mozart - "Jupiter" Symphony No. 41 in C major
Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
Soloist: Leonora Armellini (piano)
Venue:
6.00pm, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall
Warsaw, Poland
1 czerwca
The Nightingale - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Igor Stravinsky
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
This is actually a choreo-opera, aiming to delight with both its music and the beauty of its movement, colour, and choreographic gesture. This performance by the Mariinsky Theatre, presenting uniquely stunning visual images and perfect performance, has been a permanent item in the great theatre’s repertoire for many years. Stravinsky was the inventor of the themes for many of his stage pieces and the joint or sole author of the librettos. This concern for the literary and philosophical foundation of his works stemmed from his broader aesthetic and ethical concept, its essence being to restore the severed connection between Good and Beauty. The story of the marvellous bird whose wondrous song entertained, moved, and healed people is an excellent expression of this concept’s core idea. “And the nightingale sang so beautifully that tears came into the emperor’s eyes, and when they flowed down his cheeks the nightingale sang even more delightfully, and it went straight to his heart”, wrote Hans Christian Andersen in his fairy tale. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Modestas Pitrenas
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Aleksander Petrov
Set Designer - Vladimir Firer
Venue:
12.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Moniuszko Auditorium
Warsaw, Poland
2 czerwca
The Nightingale - Polish National Opera (www >>)
Warsaw, Poland
An opera by Igor Stravinsky
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
This is actually a choreo-opera, aiming to delight with both its music and the beauty of its movement, colour, and choreographic gesture. This performance by the Mariinsky Theatre, presenting uniquely stunning visual images and perfect performance, has been a permanent item in the great theatre’s repertoire for many years. Stravinsky was the inventor of the themes for many of his stage pieces and the joint or sole author of the librettos. This concern for the literary and philosophical foundation of his works stemmed from his broader aesthetic and ethical concept, its essence being to restore the severed connection between Good and Beauty. The story of the marvellous bird whose wondrous song entertained, moved, and healed people is an excellent expression of this concept’s core idea. “And the nightingale sang so beautifully that tears came into the emperor’s eyes, and when they flowed down his cheeks the nightingale sang even more delightfully, and it went straight to his heart”, wrote Hans Christian Andersen in his fairy tale. (source: Teatr Wielki)
Conductor - Modestas Pitrenas
Assistant Conductor - Ewa Strusińska
Director - Aleksander Petrov
Set Designer - Vladimir Firer
Venue:
12.00pm, Teatr Wielki - Moniuszko Auditorium
Warsaw, Poland
30 czerwca
JRNCM Symphony Orchestra (www >>)
Manchester, UK
Programme - tbc
Venue:
RNCM Concert Hall
Manchester, UK
14 października
Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra (www >>)
Bristol, UK
Programme - tbc
Venue:
St George's
Bristol, UK
