Stage performance of Beata Wróblewska's music drama "Sic itur ad Deum", to the libretto by Dariusz S. Wójcik, directed by Marek Richter, will be held on November 4, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. at the St.John's Centre in Gdańsk on the 20th anniversary of its premiere.
The premiere of this work, which is also called an opera, took place at the Wybrzeże Theater in Gdańsk on April 23, 1997 as part of the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the castle-city overt the Motława River. The author of the libretto is a Gdańsk artist Dariusz Wójcik – actor, singer and cultural animator who got fascinated with the figure of Saint Adalbert, the Bishop of Prague and a missionary to the Hungarians, Poles, and Prussians, who was martyred in his efforts to convert the Baltic Prussians to Christianity. The music drama is embedded in the historical realities of the tenth century. It depicts figures living in these times in Europe who had significant influence on the shaping of social, political and religious relations. The figure of Saint Adalbert – the main character, a man ahead of his own era – creates a dramatic axis of the work.
The cast consists of a group of ten solists (singers, actors, dancers), extras (including students of the D. Baduszkowa Vocal-Acting School in Gdynia), and a 20-person chamber orchestra, which will perform under the baton of Piotr Staniszewski .
Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
More information at: www.teatrotwarty.pl