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Opera

Moniuszko à Paris
Andrzej Kwieciński

Presentation
Opera

A composer is given the chance of a lifetime to present a new opera in Paris, but he only has four weeks to complete it. Cracking under this terrible pressure, he gets tangled up in his own plot. Moniuszko à Paris, a ‘a playful melodrama, freely based on some facts’, is a comic opera inspired in part by the life of the composer Stanisław Moniuszko, the father of Polish opera, but also by bel canto and by the story of Don Quixote. The young Polish composer Andrzej Kwieciński draws on the idiom of the modernist avant-garde to develop a new bel canto style, while the librettist Krystian Lada gets inside the head of a composer in crisis for whom the line between reality and fiction is increasingly blurred. The French director Marc Lainé creates a mental space in which the composer Moniuszko ultimately merges with Don Quixote, the main character of his own opera. 

Dates & tickets

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Location

Malibran room (La Monnaie Workshops)

Prices

Start ticket sale 8.6.2019

Cat 1 – € 60 | Cat 2 – € 40
Cat 3 – € 25 | Cat 4 – € 10

Language

Sung in Polish, Italian, French
Surtitles in Dutch and French

Presentation

Pre-performance talks 30' before the start of the performances by Pieter Mannaerts (NL) and Sébastien Herbecq (FR)

Dates & tickets

Dates

Cast
Cast

ConductorRAFAŁ KŁOCZKO
Stage direction and set designMARC LAINÉ

Moniuszko, Don Quixote KAROL KOZLOWSKI
The Director of Opera Comique, Giant HUBERT ZAPIÓR
Count M. / Sancho Panza MARTA MIKA
The director's wifeJOANNA FRESZEL
Aleksandra (Moniuszko's wife) BARBARA KINGA MAJEWSKA

Co-productionTEATR WIELKI – POLISH NATIONAL OPERA (WARSZAWA), LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT, QUEEN ELISABETH MUSIC CHAPEL (WATERLOO)
With the support ofENOA & CREATIVE EUROPE PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION
Production created atTEATR WIELKI – POLISH NATIONAL OPERA (WARSZAWA), 21.9.2019