Koncert Marszałkowski by Various, Frá (2023/2023), Hljómsveitarstjóri Szymon Stec, Filharmonia Warmińsko-Mazurska, Olsztyn, Poland

The program includes the most beautiful arias from operas and operettas. "If music is the food of love, keep playing." These famous words by Shakespeare from Twelfth Night only confirm the suspicion that music has been inseparable from love since the dawn of mankind, and vice versa. It is known that all good songs are about love, and most of them are about unhappy love. It is no different in the world of classical and less serious music, i.e. in opera and operetta. Romances and love ecstasies always inevitably end in the death of lovers or marriage, and what remains is music: the charming melody of Strauss or Offenbach arias can be hummed by people all over the world. This is the case with most of the arias and duets that will sound at today's concert. Whether it will be a bitter complaint about the inconstancy of feelings of a woman from Verdi's opera La donne e mobile , or a story about a deceptive fairy , Song of Neris from Lehár's The Merry Widow , or Hanna's aria from The Haunted Manor - all these are stories about different shades of the most powerful of human feelings, this power of that sets the sun and stars in motion. Desire, longing, unfulfillment, playing with emotions: no art can express these states better than music. So let's immerse ourselves without fear in this musical and love kaleidoscope, let's relive once again with the opera heroes their elation and failure without fear that our own heart will be broken.