PERFORMANCES

Royal jester Rigoletto seeks revenge on his master for seducing his daughter. He employs a contract killer but an ill fate that looms over him leads to tragedy - in the finale the innocent girl gets killed and the seducer walks free.   The summary of the performance PART I The Duke and his courtiers amuse themselves by playing with women. The escalation of their needs leads to the ...

One of the most beautiful operas in the world literature telling a story of missing the most important opportunity, failing to take that one crucial decision. Of missing the right moment when we meet that one, most important person who could give us happiness. Of wasting the only wealth you have, dismissing values that could save you.  It is about the most painful squandering of love and ...

The story of mythical lovers takes place in modern Baghdad. Juliet comes from rich, local family and is enmeshed in contradictions between her modern education and desires and imposed on her by her tradition and culture very strictly defined rules and prohibitions. Her mother and father have no doubts that obedience is her most important duty because it is them who represent will of society and ...

Marriage of Figaro is one of three most important of Mozart operas. It was interpreted in wide range of styles, fashions and tendencies. It is commonly perceived as a comedy work. In the same time it is most sexual and most lyrical of all Mozart operas. Main drive of characters in this work is a tension between sexuality and longing for a true love. Music sustains this tension so beautifully that ...

Men's dance is a male look on dance. Ballet evening is authored by three excellent Polish choreographers: Wojciech Misiuro, Jacek Przybyłowicz i Roman Komassa. Their dancing visions of modern masculinity are presented in three miniatures:  

Chopin inspires. It is hard to count artists, composers, choreographers, classical or jazz musicians, who derived inspiration from works of our greatest creator. Fans of ballet instantly associate his name with choreographic impression Chopiniana by Fokin with, moderately speaking, a bit controversial instrumentation of Chopin works by Glazunov. We want to break this simple association with our ...

Determination and vision of Izadora Weiss in making of big ballet performances awakens respect. Young and dynamic modern dance ensemble which was possible to create on our stage due to hard and consistent work at realizations of four previous premieres which makes us proud and distinguishes Baltic Opera from other theatres of this scale not only in Poland. We have confirmation of this on the ...

Eurasia is a modern ballet choreographed by Izadora Weiss with stage design by Ewa Kochańska and music of Bach, Nigel Kennedy and Kroke, Bruno Coulais (soundtrack from Don Juan and Himalaya), Lisa Gerard, Michał Lorenc, Yamato and original Tibetan music. This is a dance vision of two great civilizations - Asian and European - phenomenon, expression of fascination with differences but also an at...

According to announcements we present third part of triptych of Mozart's masterpieces. After Don Giovanni and Marriage of Figaro time has come for most mysterious piece. It seems to be just light singspiel telling a story of adventures of group of rescuers of abducted princess. In fact it is a poetic variation on theme of world without god in which people established code of values and try, in ...

Makbet był dziesiątą z kolei operą Verdiego, napisaną w 1847 r. dla florenckiego Teatru della Pergola i dopracowaną oraz poprawioną 18 lat później dla potrzeb premiery w paryskim Théatre-Lyrique. Prapremiera odbyła się pod czujnym okiem Verdiego 14 marca 1847 roku. po przedstawieniu kurtyna szła w góre aż 25 razy, opera okazała się wielkim sukcesem. Ale do czasu. Zniknęł...

Halka by Moniuszko is associated by many with compulsory visit to opera. Only if we give chance to Halka and listen to her story with open mind and real attention. Only then we can see this work as it is - brave, universal in message - and emotions of main characters come to be close to us. Heroine of this score, when honestly read, appears to be no less heroic then her predecessors, great ...

Ariadna na Naxos pierwotnie miała być jednoaktową operą, do której libretto napisał Hofmannsthal. Premiera tego dzieła odbyła się w 1912 roku. jednak cztery lata później został dopisany do opery prolog i tak powstała opera znana nam współcześnie. Utwór składa się z dwóch części: z prologu i opery. Właściwie pierwsza część dzieła pokazuje kulisy tego o wydarzy s...

Gwałt na Lukrecji opowiada historię rozgrywającą się w V w p.n.e. w ogarniętym wojennym chaosem Rzymie, gdzie nie obowiązują już żadne wartości moralne. Ostatnią ostoją moralności jest żona jednego z rzymskich wodzów. Lukrecja, która jako jedyna w mieście pozostała wierna mężowi. Słaba kobieta nie jest jednak w stanie obronić sama swojej cnoty i zostaje zgwałcona przez etrus...