44. Warsaw Theatre Meetings
Plays that made a special mark on the theatrical map of Poland in the past season, a concert, workshops and the Festival Club. Here are the 44th Warsaw Theatre Meetings.
After the premiere of "Zygrfried" directed by Ewelina Marciniak on the stage of Buhnen Bern, the first reviews have already appeared. I would like to remind you that this is the first time that Polish director Ewelina Marciniak has staged the entire Wagner theatralogy at a Swiss opera house - and every season the Polish director prepares - enthusiastically received - further parts of it.
Plays that made a special mark on the theatrical map of Poland in the past season, a concert, workshops and the Festival Club. Here are the 44th Warsaw Theatre Meetings.
This may surprise many, but Polish theatre for young audiences is one of the richest and the best in Europe. This is not only about the quantity and diversity of the theatre-related events in Poland. It is also about leading playwrights writing for children, special programmes developing dramaturgy for young spectators, long traditions of youth theatre, theatre productions that are aesthetically and politically relevant, and festivals that celebrate children and their theatre. Above all, the quality of Polish theatre for young audiences is underpinned by its progressive engagement with young spectators as creative partners and socio-cultural-political agents – writes Kasia Lech.
Seven performances fill the programme of the XXX Bydgoszcz Opera Festival, which is being organised by Opera Nova in late April and early May. It will be inaugurated (20 April) with "Don Pasquale" staged by the Bydgoszcz opera house. , will be crowned by "Romeo and Juliet" (4 May) performed by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Artists from Poland, Lithuania, Monaco, France and Ukraine will present themselves in Bydgoszcz.
The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD returns to cinemas on April 20 with the screening of Puccini’s ”La Rondine” (”The Swallow”). The three-act opera, written in 1917, premiered on the New York stage on March 10, 1928. For 96 years, it has only been performed a total of 33 times at the Met where it was last shown in 2013. The live broadcast will be a rare opportunity to see one of Puccini’s lesser-known works with a sterling cast
German Oper Magazine!, which featured a review of the latest opera Rivoluzione e Nostalgia, directed by Krystian Lady. The show premiered at La Monnaie in Belgium on 22 March. Manuel Brug, in his text 'The children of the revolution have already grown old', writes : Under the title 'Rivoluzione e Nostalgia', La Monnaie presents a collage of early Verdi operas. It works surprisingly well, both dramatically and musically.
The Munich Opera has continuously collaborated with Polish artists for many years. Krzysztof Warlikowski directs Janáček’s “Káťa Kabanová”. This year in August, the Salzburg Festival will host the premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Idiot” directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski. The musical director of the show is Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. The cast features Jerzy Butryn.
"Turandot" by G. Puccini in the staging of the Lviv National Opera takes the audience back to the times of ancient China, when the Great Wall of China was being built and the legendary terracotta army was being formed to protect the empire in the real world as well as the hereafter. In the play, more than a hundred fossilised figures of the terracotta army embody eyewitnesses in whom sympathy is only aroused by the tragedy in the opera's finale.
First an uncomfortable question: is this emotional blackmail? And do I have to put up with it? On the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, three real Ukrainian women sit on the stage of the Essen theatre with a sad expression at the table and pour real soup into real plates. Later, they stand on the sidelines (of German society, of course) in cheerful scenes. And finally, the youngest of them talks about her escape, her fear and the fact that she will never make it with her soft voice and sweet accent. A review of the production appeared in Theater Heute.
Narodowy Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej
Narodowy Stary Teatr im. Heleny Modrzejewskiej
TR Warszawa
Teatr Muzyczny Capitol
STUDIO teatrgaleria, Warszawa