Performance

The concept of THE FLYING DUTCHMAN came from literary sources, and its musical and poetic atmosphere had an additional autobiographical background. Wagner modeled his work directly on a short story by Heinrich Heine, which served him to prepare its stage version. Still, Heine’s story turned into a personal and tangible experience, going back to the time when Wagner had for several weeks sailed from Riga to London on board a schooner amidst a ...

THE GYPSY BARON is one of the most famous operettas and, at the same time, the greatest success of its composer. During the premiere, the audience's enthusiasm was so enormous that almost the entire performance was played again as an encore. Strauss composed music full of lightness and charm. Driven by the desire to write a true opera, he based it on elaborate vocal parts. The action is set in spectacular scenes, where the exoticism of ...

"The Revenge of the Bat" is not just any operetta; it is indeed the masterpiece of this genre. With these words, Felix Weingartner, the Austrian conductor, composer, and pianist from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as a great connoisseur of operettas, described Johann Strauss II's work. Adding to these words the authority of Gustav Mahler, who personally conducted "The Revenge of the Bat," providing an immortal ...

DON CARLOS – PERFECTION AND EMOTIONS   Each encounter with the works of Giuseppe Verdi is a significant challenge and an emotional experience for the theater, offering the audience an opportunity to participate in something important and extraordinary. After the March premiere in Paris in 1867, Verdi was not entirely pleased with the result of his work on Don Carlos. In a short time, he made many changes, and by October of the ...

Join us for the extraordinary premiere of one of the greatest operas. “Don Giovanni” by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a masterpiece that has captivated audiences for over two centuries with its music, drama, and timeless themes, now returning to the Łódź stage in a fresh, new interpretation. “Don Giovanni” tells a story of passion, ambition, and moral conflict – the tale of a seducer confronting the consequences of his actions. Mozart’s ...

DON PASQUALE... FOR EVERYONE!   Such indigestible confetti – Donizetti tells us to take poor Don Pasquale to the hospital. This malicious verse, published in the press after the premiere in Dresden in 1844, couldn't harm Gaetano Donizetti's excellent opera Don Pasquale – to the full approval and delight of the audience – triumphantly marched through the world's greatest opera stages. Stars like Enrico Caruso, Marcelina ...

The choreographic adaptation of the Don Quixote story, directly derived from Miguel de Cervantes's work, was performed as a court ballet titled DON QUICHOTTE at the Louvre as early as 1614. Over the next 400 years, dozens of works incorporating the motif of the misguided knight were created. However, it was the ballet choreographed by the legendary Marius Petipa, with music by Ludwig A. Minkus (1869), that permanently entered the ...

It is difficult to seek sense, logic, or rationality in operetta; after all, that is not its purpose. The same applies to NIGHT IN VENICE; the intricacies of the libretto create improbable and surprising situations, along with often irrational reactions of the characters, bringing humor and entertainment. This classic operetta by the Viennese composer forms, along with THE BAT and THE GYPSY BARON, a masterful trio of the genre. One ...

Fairy Melodi is the guardian of music and the protector of musical compositions. She runs an Academy where she teaches about the world of fairies and music. In the first lessons at Fairy Melodi’s Academy, you will learn where fairies live, what they do, but most importantly, you will discover what happens when chaos sneaks into music and musical styles.   The story begins when mischievous children leave a terrible mess in Fairy ...