13th Krakow Opera Summer Festival
13th Krakow Opera Summer Festival will be held from June 12th to July 5th, 2009. Fourteen festival soirees will be filled with the most interesting works of Opera Krakowska, an outdoor performance (Cyrulik sewilski, The Barber of Seville), specially prepared for the Festival, and a musical show composed of some of the greatest Polish and international arias. The Festival schedule also includes two guest performances from the Czech Republic (Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica) and Slovakia (Madama Butterfly). The Festival shall take place in the Wawel Royal Castle and in the new building of the Krakow Opera.
Krakowska Noc Teatrów (Krakow Theatre Night) with two guest performances of operetta (Nocny Benefis Operetki) shall inaugurate this year's Festival. Some well-known and recognised artists of the Krakow Opera shall perform, among them: Krystyna Tyburowska, Edyta Piasecka-Durlak, Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha, Bożena Zawiślak-Dolny, Jan Wilga, Franciszek Makuch, Andrzej Biegun, Adam Sobierajski. During the Theatre Night, the audience of the Krakow Opera will have an opportunity to tour our new edifice and visit the places which are normally inaccessible. The street plate with a new name of the street in memory of Iwona Borowicka, the Operetta's star, shall be unveiled.
An open air performance of Cyrulik sewilski (The Barber of Seville) will be a special feature of the Festival, and it will be shown on June 26th and 27th in the most beautiful Renaissance courtyard in Europe - the Inner Courtyard of the Wawel Castle. The performance shall be prepared by Laco Adamik, with Tadeusz Kozłowski as the musical director. The performance will feature Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha, Agnieszka Cząstka, Artur Ruciński, Adam Zdunikowski, Rafał Siwek, Przemysław Firek, Piotr Miciński. Each time, the performance shall be admired by 1200 people.
The Wawel Castle shall also become the venue for the famous opera arias (Arie Oper Świata, July3rd and 5th), performed by outstanding Polish soloists: Małgorzata Walewska, Ewa Biegas, Arnold Rutkowski, Artur Ruciński and the Krakow Opera Orchestra conducted by Łukasz Borowicz. July 4th shall be the date of the concert held in the Inner Courtyard of the Wawel Castle. The concert has been prepared in cooperation with Grupa Twórcza CASTELLO (Wawel o zmierzchu - Chopin w Operze, Wawel at Dusk, Chopin in the Opera). The following artists shall perform: Magdalena Barylak, Edyta Piasecka-Durlak, Pavlo Tolstoy, Mikołaj Zalasiński, and the Krakow Opera Orchestra and Ballet conducted by Tomasz Tokarczyk.
We hope that the guest performances of Madama Butterfly of Kosice Theatre (Slovakia) and Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica of Opava Theatre (Czech Republic) shall also be unforgettable. The Festival schedule shall also include a very recent performance - the well-received ballet Spojrzenia (The Glances) to music by Ch. Gounod and M. Ravel, a Puccini opera Tosca presented for the first time in the new building of the Opera, and Rigoletto, directed by Henryk Baranowski.
13th Krakow Opera Summer Festival Programme
June 12th– July 5th, 2008
- June 12th, 2009
- Noc Teatrów (Theatre Night)
NOCNY BENEFIS OPERETKI,
Duża Scena, ul. Lubicz 48, at: 6.30 pm
June 13th, 14th, 2009- RIGOLETTO,
directed by Henryk Baranowski, conducted by Tomasz Tokarczyk,
Duża Scena, ul. Lubicz 48, at: 6.30 pm - June 15th, 2009
- DER KAISER VON ATLANTIS (The Emperor of Atlantis )
KOLOT MIN HASHOAH (Voices of the Holocaust),
directed by Beata Redo-Dobber, conducted by Tomasz Tokarczyk
Duża Scena, ul. Lubicz 48, at: 6.30 pm - June 19th, 21st, 2009
- TOSCA,
directed by by Laco Adamik, conducted by Andrzej Starszyński,
Duża Scena, ul. Lubicz 48, at: 6.30 pm - June 23rd, 2009
- SPOJRZENIA (The Glances),
choreography by: N. Diatchenko, conducted by Ruben Silva Duża Scena, ul. Lubicz 48, at: 6.30 pm - June 26th, 27th, 2009
- CYRULIK SEWILSKI (THE BARBER OF SEVILLE),
Art director: Laco Adamik, Barbara Kędzierska, conducted by Tadeusz Kozłowski.
The Inner Courtyard of the Royal Castle, at: 8.30 pm - June 29th, 2009
- GIANNI SCHICCHI / SUOR ANGELICA
The guest of the Krakow Opera - Slezské Divadlo, Opava (Czech Republic),
Duża Scena, ul. Lubicz 48, at: 6.30 pm - July 1st, 2009
- MADAMA BUTTERFLY
The guest of the Krakow Opera - Štátne Divadlo, Košice (Slovakia)
Duża Scena, ul. Lubicz 48, at: 6.30 pm - July 3rd, 5th, 2009
- ARIE OPER ŚWIATA (FAMOUS OPERA ARIAS)
The Inner Courtyard of Wawel, at: 8.30 pm - July 4th, 2009
- WAWEL AT DUSK – CHOPIN IN THE OPERA/
Co-organizer: Grupa Twórcza "CASTELLO"
Tickets:
Ticket office of the Krakow Opera, ul. Lubicz 48
phone: (+48) 012 296 62 60 (61)
and www.bileteria.pl
Open air performance tickets shall be also available in the Information Centre in Wawel.
A short history of the Krakow Opera Summer Festival
The first festival of the Krakow Opera was organized in 1997, by the initiative of Director Jerzy Noworol. In the course of twelve editions, more than 150 performances have been held, viewed by over 95,000 people. The main idea of the Festival is to present outstanding Polish and foreign soloists who perform as guests in Krakow Opera performances.
The Festival has been held in summer, both in the building of the Słowacki Theatre, and in picturesque open-air scenery. The Opera was kindly allowed to stage its performances in the Wawel Castle (Straszny Dwór , Tosca, 2005), in the Niepołomice Castle (Straszny Dwór, 2002 and 2003, Baron cygański, 2008) , the Museum of Aviation (Łucja z Lammermoor, Faust, Traviata, 2008), and in Wieliczka Salt Mine Madama Butterfly, 2003). In 2004/2005 Halka, staged in Skałki Twardowskiego, was a tremendous success.
Previous editions of the Festival hosted such guests as: Mikhail Baryshnikov with White Oak Dance Project, the performers of Lviv Opera, University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, the State Theatre's Young Opera from Stuttgart, Silesian Opera from Bytom. Among the soloists, the following artists have performed in Krakow so far: world-famous bass singer Yevgeny Nesterenko, soprano singer Irena Milkievičiute, tenor singer Mario Ya Lin Zhang, soprano singer Irina Zakyan, and Polish soloists, successfully performing on well-known European stages: Joanna Kozłowska, Barbara Kubiak, Joanna Woś, Małgorzata Olejniczak, Marcin Bronikowski, Romuald Tesarowicz, Artur Ruciński, Andrzej Dobber.
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