NEWS ABOUT US REPERTOIRE TICKETS EDUCATION SPONSORSHIP CONTACT ENGLISH "LOOKING FOR LEAR: VERDI" - "VOICE OF THE OUTCAST" IN OPERA It was not an ordinary performance, but a moving story about passing and old age, for which the starting point was Shakespeare's "King Lear" and the music of Giuseppe Verdi. On October 5, at our Chamber Stage, Michał Znaniecki presented "Looking for Lear: Verdi" - a performance he made as part of the "Voice of the Excluded" project. In a word - the key for the artist was "exclusion", and the aim was to include in the theater social groups that have difficult access to culture and art on a daily basis. The project had its premiere in 2013 in Wrocław, and in the following years it visited various cities to go to Kraków as well. In each edition, the director involved a different socially excluded group. In the Krakow production, along with Jerzy Artysz, Wojciech Malajkat, Ewa Biegas, Karin Wiktor-Kałucka and Marta Mika, the charges of the Krakow Nursing Homes, the Choir and the Ballet Studio of the Krakow Opera were performed. The artists on the piano were accompanied by Jacek Kita - the music director of the project. “Beautiful, worthy of respect and praise is the attention of a respected director on problems that can affect everyone, and which are so difficult to talk about - on the one hand, the issue of exclusion, on the other - the passing and the dark side of old age. The performance, although theatrical and operatic, is devoid of stage gimmickness - it touches upon important but difficult matters, breaking the barriers of shame and clichés. This is his great strength "- wrote Anna Małachowska (nascenie.info). Michał Znaniecki used the story of the eponymous King Lear and the music of G. Verdi - the composer, who dreamed of writing an opera based on a Shakespearean drama, but never managed to achieve it. Anna Woźniakowska on the Polska Muza website points out: "(...) thanks to Michał Znaniecki at the Krakow Opera, we watched and listened to Verdi's King Lear (...)". Thanks to the inclusion of the elderly from the Nursing Home in Krakow, the themes of old age and transience gained depth and, above all, authenticity, which, combined with the director's vision and artistic creation of the soloists and actors, touched many of the people present at the performance. "(...) it was, at least for me, an interesting and even moving experience, wrote Anna Woźniakowska. The performance was shown for the second time on October 6. Kamil Baron played the role of Fool, accompanied by Joachim Kołpanowicz. "Looking for Lear: Verdi" - "Voice of the Outcast" in Opera OFFER PRESS OFFICE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS SITE MAP PRIVACY POLICY BAT REVENGE The Marriage of Figaro La Traviata KING ROGER Philtre MADAMA BUTTERFLY Devils of Loudun THE CYGAŃSKI BARON Nutcracker Don Pasquale ORPHEUS AND EURIDIC Address: ul. Lubicz 48, 31-512 Kraków, opera@opera.krakow.pl Patron of the Krakow Opera: design and implementation evl.pl Ta strona wykorzystuje pliki cookies (niewielkie pliki tekstowe przechowywane przez przeglądarkę internetową na urządzeniu użytkownika) m.in. do analizy statystycznej ruchu, dopasowania wyglądu i treści strony do indywidualnych potrzeb użytkownika). Pozostawiając w ustawieniach przeglądarki włączoną obsługę plików cookies wyrażasz zgodę na ich użycie. Jeśli nie zgadzasz się na wykorzystanie plików cookies zmień ustawienia swojej przeglądarki. AKCEPTUJĘ