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Credo

The Baltic Opera is a theatre built on the foundations of music. It is music that sets all the interpretation rules and the area where we meet the audience. The care for its artistic quality is our first commandment. The second is coping with the emotions created by the music. Thus opera and ballet spectacles can neither be a copy of the already accepted patterns nor reproduce the canon of values established by the previous generations. They should show our own effort to answer the challenges set by music, here and now. Only this kind of theatre can pride itself on the name of a "living theatre". And only this kind of theatre is worth meeting in it. This conviction goes along with the third commandment, which says that artists, who step on the stage for such a meeting must be fascinating people. They must represent the highest level of professional skills we can achieve, and have a personality more interesting than all those that we do not want to meet. Thus a team of soloists, a choir and a ballet must be a sum of personalities connected by a common rhythm, emotions and a direction to which they both head starting with the first scene. The fourth commandment is the presence of somebody who can responsibly and effectively indicate this direction. Every producer is treated here as a leader and during the making of a spectacle everything is placed under their command. We do not place any limits on them with the exception of a modest budget and the conviction that our guests in the audience should understand what we would like to present to them.  A dislike for any kind of gibberish and for any disdain for the audience is our fifth commandment. The rest of the decalogue, like in all other decalogues, is just a consequence of the first half. This is our theatre faith and the hope that we will persevere in it.
 

Marek Weiss
General and Artistic Director