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The premiere of the opera, in its new version, took place on October 27, 2018, before the 100th anniversary of Poland's independence.Composer said:I wrote this version of the opera in 2017-2018 for Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz. Literally it does not differ from the first one, but I re-edited the music. I added the Overture, Intermezzo, Declamation and Sylvia's Recitative. Some passages have been expanded, others reduced or simplified. The opera has new instrumentation. The subtitle "comic opera" is n...
On November 13-19, 2023, Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, the second largest opera house in Poland, will host the 3rd Bogdan Paprocki National Vocal Competition. It will be the third edition of a vocal competition in northern Poland of such a high rank - three stages, the final round with an orchestra. Outstanding professional Polish opera singers were invited to join the jury of the competition: Ewa Podleś, Agnieszka Rehlis, Wiesław Ochman, Andrzej Dobber, Mariusz Kwiecień and Magdalena Idzik. The winn...
The world premiere of La bohème was in Turin on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio, conducted by Arturo Toscanini. Since then, La bohème has become part of the standard Italian opera repertoire and is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide.Before Giacomo Puccini sat down to write La bohème, which turned out to be one of the world’s most popular operas, the same topic caught the interest of another composer who had risen out of poverty and wanted to showcase ‘real l...
Philosophical fable about love, romantic and desperate tragicomedy – Così fan tutte is all that. Borrowing the subject of the Marriage of Figaro from Beaumarchais and Don Juan from Molière, Mozart and his librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte came up with an original subject. The unique plot is based on themes seen repeatedly and cultivated in literature and theatre since their origins, from Ovid to the Commedia dell’Arte.A bittersweet meditation on women’s faithfulness against a backdrop of disguises, fa...
Do tej pory nie zdarzyło mi się realizować tytułu tak bliskiego repertuarowi familijnemu. Jest to spektakl, który - mam nadzieję - zrobi duże wrażenie na młodszych widzach, ale chciałbym, żeby był także sporą dawką dobrej rozrywki i humoru dla dorosłych. W „Alicji w Krainie Czarów" mamy bardzo wiele sytuacji komicznych, co aż prosi się, by nadać im właściwy rytm na scenie, aby odzwierciedlić ten nastrój.Robert Bondara w rozmowie z Expressem Bydgoskim: Ten tytuł chodził za mną już od dłuższego cz...
Z libretta:W oknie domu Doktora Coppeliusa nieruchomo siedzi piękna dziewczyna czytająca książkę, uchodząca za jego córkę – Coppelię. Wzbudza niepokój w sercu Swanildy, która zauważa, że jej narzeczony, Franz zbytnio interesuje się dziewczyną. Aby sprawdzić, czy nie spotyka się z tajemniczą postacią z okna, Swanilda obserwuje młodzieńca z ukrycia.Gdy zapada zmrok, Doktor Coppelius wychodzi ze swojego domu. Gubi klucz i nie zauważywszy tego, odchodzi. Swanilda bez wahania zabiera klucz i wr...
Spektakl przygotowywany z przeznaczeniem na wystawianie w sali kameralnej.
One of the greatest operas ever written. Mozart’s timeless classic concerns the search for truth and reason, love and enlightenment. It follows the adventures of Prince Tamino and the bird-catcher Papageno on their quest to rescue Pamina. To assist their mission, they are given musical instruments enhanced with magical powers.
Verdi’s grand opera Don Carlos is a story of love and devotion, conflicting with political and religious upheaval. Its based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infante of Spain by Friedrich Schiller. The opera's story is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545–1568). At its full length (including the ballet and the cuts made before the first performance), it contains close to four hours of music and is Verdi's longest opera.
Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV by William Shakespeare. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan.
Faust is an opera in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, draws upon Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s two-part play based on the German legend of a man who sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power.Gounod’s opera does not attempt to match the thematic breadth or the philosophical sophistication of Goethe’s sprawling masterpiece, concentrating instead on Faust’s romantic encounter with Marguerit...
Moniuszko finished composing Halka in 1847 and attempted to stage it in Warsaw. However, he performed the first two-act version in Vilnius in 1848. Only 11 years later, on January 1, 1858, the Warsaw premiere of the four-act version of this most outstanding Polish romantic opera took place, which was greeted with great enthusiasm. This is the fourth production of Halka in the history of Opera Nova - this time prepared by representatives of the young generation of theater artists. Only the m...