| Published: | June 12, 2020 17:20 |
———— The fact that artists going on stage – no matter in which theatre genre – voluntarily let other people assess them is obvious. And they always – being more or less anxious – wait for the reaction of the audience after the performance, and then for what theatre and music reviewers will write about
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| Published: | June 9, 2020 15:00 |
———— To say that Gioacchino Rossini was great is like saying that roses smell nice… The composer of operas such as The Barber of Seville, William Tell, and L’italiana in Algeri gave us 39 operas, 28 cantatas and anthems, 14 religious compositions, 32 songs, 21 instrumental compositions and the beautiful Sins of old age. His
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| Published: | June 5, 2020 18:00 |
———— The opera, sooner or later, had to reach the television. It was first broadcast on 19 May 1947, when the third and fourth act of Puccini’s La bohème was broadcast ‘live’ on the BBC. With this performance, the British Broadcasting Corporation made a real pioneering act. Up to that point, no other television station,
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| Published: | June 2, 2020 10:15 |
———— The first Polish monarch who was lucky enough to come into contact with the opera was Władysław IV Vasa, when he was still a prince at the court of the Medici in Florence, where he watched Francesca Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. The new genre fascinated the young prince so much that
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| Published: | May 29, 2020 13:50 |
———— Opera w swoich dziejach niezbyt często dawała szanse popisów dzieciom, ale jednak tak się zdarzało. Dzieci pojawiają się w tytułach (np. Dziecko i czary Ravela), choć wykonawcami są dorośli – są także głównymi bohaterami oper (np. Cinderella Rossiniego i Jaś i Małgosia Humperdincka) i tymi, którymi kompozytorzy „wzmacniali” wokalnie i uatrakcyjniali wielkie sceny zbiorowe
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| Published: | May 26, 2020 10:30 |
———— After the staging of Johann Mattheson’s opera Cleopatra in Hamburg on 5 December 1705, there was a real swordplay between the previously befriended composers Johann Mattheson and George Frideric Handel, who conducted the spectacle. Johann Mattheson sang the leading role of Antony in his own opera and after his death on stage, he wanted
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| Published: | May 22, 2020 10:00 |
———— W Sooner or later it had to happen. The opera, with its seriousness, majesty and ‘shoes on platforms’, had to expect something lighter and more cheerful, which does not mean that it is less ambitious and easier. The premiere of La belle Hélène by Jacques Offenbach at Theatre des Varietes in Paris (17 December
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| Published: | May 21, 2020 17:17 |
———— Z przyjemnością prezentujemy wypowiedź wieloletniego dyrektora Teatru Wielkiego w Łodzi – Sławomira Pietrasa, który wspomina nasz zespół baletowy, ale również komentuje ostatni nasz spektakl baletowy Separated Life. Spektakl, który powstał z potrzeby serca, a którego inicjatorem i pomysłodawcą oraz choreografem jest Grzegorz Brożek, muzykę do spektaklu napisał Cezary Kurowski. Zobaczcie Państwo sami.
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| Published: | May 20, 2020 10:00 |
———— In the colourful and rich history of the opera, sometimes the so-called ‘censorship’ limited its creators artistic visions, effectively interfering in the ‘content’ of the work, and trying to ‘improve’ what it thought needed to be improved. On 7 October 1909, at Mamontov’s Private Opera in Moscow, a year after the composer’s death, the
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| Published: | May 15, 2020 10:00 |
———— It is hard to believe, but unfortunately it is true; one of the most popular operas, not only among the works of Giuseppe Verdi, during its premiere at Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 6 March 1853, was… a complete disaster! The audience expressed their great dissatisfaction with loud exclamations at the open curtain
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