Performance

Puccini's Western Adventure   I came into this world many years ago, perhaps too long ago, maybe it's been centuries... God touched me with his little finger and said: Write for the theater; remember: only for the theater... - and I - listened to this highest advice...   And it's a good thing I did, because how would we - us opera enthusiasts - feel without such operatic hits by Puccini as Madame ...

La Traviata, with a libretto by Francesco Piave based on Alexandre Dumas’s The Lady of the Camellias, was not received well during its first premiere at Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1853. The bourgeois audience could not accept the fact that the plot of the opera is set in modern times and that the main character is a courtesan! History has proven that they were wrong: today, the opera is one of the most frequently performed ones. By ...

The libretto of this magical dance spectacle was written by Liwia Pawłowska, while the music was composed by Maciej Pawłowski. The story revolves around events taking place in the Land of Day and Night, where the main character, Princess of the Day - the titular Lamaila - is suddenly awakened in the middle of the night by a funny creature living in the depths of the swamp - Mr. Gulgacz. Lamaila, thanks to the full moon... falls in love ...

LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC CONCERT World Music Festival   By popular demand, we are proud to present once again the Latin American Music Concert. The melodies of Latin America will resound again, performed by artists who embody this style and its unique atmosphere. It's not the grand opera, but lighter music, which doesn't mean it's easier or less serious. Instead, it flows from the stage to bring you joy and ...

CRAZY DAY WITH FIGARO It's hard to compare the musical genius of character portrayal, the mastery of ensembles, the accuracy of comedic solutions, and the content of the musical-theatrical progress creating an atmosphere of effervescent joy, moving beauty, diverse moods, and a sense of all-encompassing happiness with anything else. In the words of Sławomir Pietras, we invite you to meet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Marriage of ...

Although today MADAMA BUTTERFLY stands among Giacomo Puccini's greatest operatic hits, alongside masterpieces like TOSCA or LA BOHÈME, its premiere at La Scala ended in disaster. The love duet from Act I was met with booing, and when Cio-cio-san began singing about the nesting robins, the audience burst into such laughter that the performance was nearly halted. Yet, today it is perhaps one of the greatest melodramatic operas, a true ...

"Manon Lescaut" was Puccini's first work to achieve full success, marking the beginning of the then 34-year-old composer's international career. Not even the fact that the same subject had been presented on the opera stage by Jules Massenet just nine years earlier, let alone earlier works by Halevy and Auber based on the novel by Prévost, could diminish the success of Puccini's opera. In "Manon Lescaut," Puccini's individual musical style, which ...

He was the longest-serving director (1982-1991) of our theater, and what he accomplished is invaluable. The opera and ballet premieres staged during his tenure broke popularity records, bringing works that had never been seen in Łódź before to the stage, including "Żydówka" by Halevy, "Norma" by Bellini, "Fidelio" by Beethoven, and "Mefistofeles" by Boito, in remarkable productions. Ballet "revolutions" such as "Próba Fodora," "Faust goes ...

It's a story about dreams coming true, about how anyone's fate can change for the better. The libretto of the musical "My Fair Lady", one of the greatest worldwide successes of its genre, was based on George Bernard Shaw's play, a text that can be likened to "Pretty Woman," a cinematic hit from the 1990s starring Julia Roberts, from today's perspective. Since its premiere in 1956, the musical has been triumphant and has broken popularity ...