Szachrajka flea by Małecki, Fra (2021/2022), Instrueret af Anna Seniuk, Dirigent Rafał Karczmarczyk, Opera Wrocławska, Wrocław, Poland

Many a generation of Poles was brought up on Jan Brzechwa's poem. The eminent representative of the Scamandrites knew how to speak to children like rarely any poet. He dressed up the pranks of the wayward Pchła in delicious rhymes, which in the play directed by Anna Seniuk shimmer with all colors, also thanks to the music of Maciej Małecki. Solo pranks, duet pranks, and choral streams of jokes create a warm, joyful performance that introduces not only the youngest to the world of theater and opera. And as for the "adult" opera, it appears in the performance, and she - the aria from Stanisław Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor and the aria from Toska by Giacomo Puccini create an additional context for the presence of Flea Szachrajka on the stage of the opera theater.