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Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
Województwo Łódzkie - Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Łódzkiego

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Performance

Poster for the spectacle: CHOPIN
Dates:

CHOPIN

Opera

Composer:
Giacomo Orefice

Author of the libretto:
Angiolo Orvieto

Date of the premiere:
1.10.2021

Duration:
3 h (2 intermissions)

Producers:
Musical Direction:
Adam Banaszak

Director:
Hanna Marasz

Costumes and Stage Design:
Zuzanna Markiewicz

Paintings:
Wojciech Siudmak

Choreography, Stage Movement:
Jacek Przybyłowicz

Multimedia Director:
Emilia Sadowska

Lighting Director:
Katarzyna Łuszczyk

Choir Direction:
Maciej Salski

Musical Collaboration:
Marta Kosielska

Assistant Directors:
Waldemar Stańczuk, Adam Grabarczyk

Stage Managers:
Andrzej Kowalik, Zbigniew Pawełczyk



Piano recital and opera in four acts. The performance will be in Italian with Polish subtitles.
Opera with Chopin... Not only in the title
 
It is a beautiful story based on the life and unique music of Fryderyk Chopin, enriched with vocal and acting performances. This opera was created with great sympathy and admiration for the music of Fryderyk Chopin. Its creator, the Italian Giacomo Orefice, based his score entirely on the music of the Polish composer. Chopin's life also served as inspiration for the libretto, and his name became the title of the opera.
 
Chopin – as some music historians claim – is an opera that is a wildly inaccurate account of the composer's life. All characters except Chopin are entirely fictional, and the course of operatic events only suggests certain threads from the life of the great Pole. How much truth and how much fantasy is in the librettist's work?
 
However, the entire piece provides great opportunities for vocal and acting performances for all performers. And that's what opera is all about. Fryderyk Chopin did not compose a single opera, and allegedly, he didn't even dream of creating music for the theater. This time – Chopin's character on stage and his music in a completely different form. Will we be surprised? Definitely – but of course, in a positive way.

 


 

The honorary patronage over the premiere has been assumed by
The Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture, National Heritage, and Sport Prof. Piotr Gliński
and the National Institute of Fryderyk Chopin


Soloists, Choir, Ballet, and Orchestra of the Grand Theatre in Łódź

fot. Joanna Miklaszewska
a man sits at a piano and plays it, in the background a blue planet on a black background
a man wearing a suit sits at a wooden table, writing a letter with a pen, another man in a suit stands over him and stares at him, in the background a large group of actors dressed in white looking around
in the middle there is a festively decorated Christmas tree, under it there are red gifts, around there are actors dressed in white
soloist in a black coat with a brown briefcase in his hand stands to the right of a festively decorated Christmas tree with red presents under it and sings, snow is falling on him in the mountains, the background is blue
a woman wearing a blue dress and a black hat, holding folded sheets of paper, is looking straight ahead, to her left is falling snow, the background is blue
group scene, on the right a small group of standing people dressed in black, in the middle people dressed in black sitting on chairs, on the left two children and a man between them, opening a present
a woman in a burgundy dress holds a feather fan in her right hand, her blond hair is loose and she is singing, the background is black
a man dressed in his best clothes leans against a wooden table with a chair next to it, he holds a red rose in his hands, which he holds with both hands close to his face, the background is black, and a plant stands on the right
a couple lit by red light, holding hands and looking into each other's eyes, the woman standing on the left in a burgundy dress, the man dressed in his best
on the left and right white walls, the stage is lit with blue light, the wall on the left has a window, in front of it stand three people, two men dressed in their best attire and a woman in a burgundy dress standing between them, on the right stands a white statue of a woman, and next to it two women dressed in their best attire are staring at it, the background is black
an elderly man in a white alb stands against a blue-lit background, raises his left hand, on which he has a wooden rosary with a large cross hanging, sings
in the foreground a woman in a burgundy dress is hugging a smartly dressed man, in the background actors dressed in black are depressed in the background stands a white statue of a woman, the background is blue
in the foreground a dead woman lying, on the left a man in a white alb with a rosary, in the background a large group of actors dressed in black, three of them leaning over the body, one woman is crying, the rest are singing, the background is blue
a window covered with a white curtain, in front of it on the left side a burgundy armchair with a black cushion on it, turned to the left, on the right a man leaning on the windowsill, holding his heart with his hand, he is bent over and dressed in his best
in the foreground, a couple dressed in their best is standing a meter apart, the man on the left is singing, the woman is staring straight ahead, all dressed in their best, blue background

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