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After almost two years, Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa's opera Wanda, based on the mystery play by Bard, returns to the concert circuit, but this time not to the Wawel courtyard, but to the stage of the Cracow Opera. The premiere of the new, extensive staging is scheduled for the 1^st of April, 2023 at 18.30.

On the stage of the Cracow institution, the work will be presented in a new staging, with different sets and costumes. The choreography has also been expanded. The elements of the stage version were worked on by the team responsible for the production of the Wawel premiere, including Michał Klauza (musical director), Waldemar Zawodziński (direction, scenography, multimedia), Maria Balcerek (costumes) and Janina Niesobska (choreography). Among performers there will be almost all artists who took part in the premiere performance in 2021 - the world-famous bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny will once again play the role of Grodny.

Ticket information: https://opera.krakow.pl/spektakle/wanda 

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

On the 31^st of March, 2023, the latest album by Tomasz Konieczny and Lech Napierała, From Secession to Distortion, will be released by Dal Segno Institute and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The promotional concert will take place on the stage of the Cracow Philharmonic at 19.30. The artist endowed with a powerful voice, achieving spectacular successes on stages of the world's largest opera houses, will present songs by Richard Strauss, Aleksander Nowak and Henryk Czyż included on the new album.

This session album is the result of nearly a decade of cooperation between the artists, initiated by a recital with the songs of Richard Strauss, which took place at the Cracow Philharmonic in 2014. The new album includes Aleksander Nowak's series Couplets written to five poems by Bolesław Leśmian, twelve songs by Richard Strauss and Henryk Czyż's Two buffo arias to his own surreal poems, in which there is a lot of ambiguity, sometimes even macabre.

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Concert of the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic lead by Giancarlo Guerrero on the 31^st of March, 2023 at 19.00 will be a meeting with two great symphonies written in the 20^th century. The author of the Third Symphony ‘Symphonie liturgique’ is Arthur Honegger, an artist whose works far too rarely appear in concert programmes. Symphony No. 3 ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ was written by Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, one of the most famous Polish composers of the last century. The solo part in his work will be performed by Aleksandra Kurzak. The theme of both symphonies is very similar – it is a settlement with the great tragedies of the 20^th century.

Honegger's Third Symphony was written in 1945–1946. The composer's goal was, on the one hand, to settle accounts with the horrors of war, and on the other, to express hope for peace.’

Górecki's ‘Symphony of Sorrowful Songs’ consists of three parts. Each of them is maintained at a slow pace, in each there is a motif of the loss of a child and the inevitable mourning of the mother associated with this event. The asceticism and simplicity of the musical language used by the artist strengthen the emotional message hidden in words.

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The ‘Filtr AW’ Photographic Circle of the Faculty of Interior Design of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and the Scientific and Artistic Circle of the Faculty of Composition and Music Theory of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw invite you to the opening of the music and photographic exhibition ‘SEN/JAWA’ combined with a concert of contemporary music on the 31^st of March, 2023 at 19.00 at the Austrian Cultural Forum in Warsaw. The exhibition will be open until the 14^th of April. Free entrance!

The aim of the exhibition is to draw attention to the unique and unlimited organ which thehuman brain is, and how little we still know about it – as dreams are one of the few thingsthat humans are still not able to fully control.The project is also a search for answers to the questions: What is a dream? What emotions accompany us during dream projections? Where to draw the line between what is real and imagined? And what happens after waking up?

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC

During the concert in the Chamber Hall of the National Forum of Music on the 30^th of March, 2023 at 19.00 the singer Szymon Komasa will appear, who will present songs by Polish composers. In addition, the repertoire will be enriched by works by Johannes Brahms and masterpieces of French music of Claude Debussy or Erik Satie - arranged for two pianos, with Sophia Muñoz and Adam Kośmieja as performers. 

Stefan Kisielewski believed in the idea of ​​pure music, free from any senses and meanings. However, he made an exception by composing vocal lyrical miniatures to the words of Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński in the 1950s, reflecting the intimate nature of poetry and contradicting the main idea of ​​his own work. Komasa will perform two of them, belonging to the Seven Songs cycle: The Blind Sleepwalker's Prayer and The Request for Happy Isles.