Organization

Singer

Soprano

Izabela Matuła

Halka

Ewa Vesin

Baritone

Tomasz Rak

Janusz

Tenor

Rafał Bartmiński

Jontek

Bass

Krzysztof Szumanski

Stolnik

Dariusz Machej

Dziemba

Stage director

Mariusz Treliński

Lighting designer

Marc Heinz

Costume designer

Dorota Roqueplo

Set designer

Boris Kudlička

Video designer

Bartek Macias

Choreographer

Tomasz Jan Wygoda

Dramaturge

Piotr Gruszczyński

Chorus master

Mirosław Janowski

Conductor

Tadeusz Kozłowski

Hairstyle and make-up

Lukasz Pycior

Maria Stasiak

Zofia

Spoken

Grzegorz Pelutis

A piper

Daniel Oleksy

First guest

Igor Buczyński

Second guest

Michał Piskor

Third guest

Bartosz Tomczuk

Fourth guest

Zbigniew Malak

Głos tenorowy

MusikTheater an der Wien

Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Polish National Opera

Others

Chorus of the Polish National Opera

Polish

Warsaw

Poland

Sala Moniuszki

Poster

Public

English

Approved

Halka Moniuszko

STANISŁAW MONIUSZKO Jontek's aria "And you believe him" from act 2 of the opera "Halka" Wiesław Ochman - Jontek Halina Słoniowska - Halka Orchestra of the Grand Theater in Warsaw under the baton of Zdzisław Górzyński Directed by: Bronisław Dąbrowski Scenography: Andrzej Stopka November 21, 1965 Grand Theater in in Warsaw

The Haunted Manor and  Halka are the cornerstones of Polish opera and that's it! While the former can be troublesome in terms of staging due to its strong insertion in a specific historical time (the defeat of the January Uprising) and the socio-national context (the three invaders, the fight for independence), the latter seems to be closer to contemporary audiences. Moniuszko's musical phantasm about highlander music was so powerful that it permanently obscured the original in the minds of the general public. SlipTreliński has moved to a socialist realist hotel in Zakopane: unfinished, policemen are bustling about, numbered objects on the floor - a gray and gloomy crime scene. In such a setting, tormented by remorse, Janusz awakens (and more than once) from a nightmare to enter the second, more terrible, because he is awake. And then a clear, heartbreaking voice comes from behind the stage ... Treliński's film imagination is perfectly complemented by Kudlička's set design. One thing needs to be emphasized: the staging momentum did not overshadow Halka's drama

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer