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HALKA

Opera

Composer:

Stanisław Moniuszko

Author of the libretto:

Włodzimierz Wolski

Date of the premiere:

21.01.2017

Producers:

Musical Direction:

Wojciech Rodek

Direction and Set Design:

Jarosław Kilian

Costumes:

Weronika Karwowska

Choreography:

Emil Wesołowski

Lighting Design:

Maciej Igielski

Projections:

Zoom Media

Choir Direction:

Dawid Jarząb

Producer:

Łukasz Mitka

Assistant Conductor:

Mieczysław Unger

Assistant Directors:

Jerzy Machowski, Waldemar Stańczuk, Maria Szczucka

Set Design Assistant:

Sławomir Szondelmajer

Costume Assistant:

Aleksandra Gąsior

Stage Managers:

Andrzej Kowalik, Zbigniew Pawełczyk

The performance includes photographs by Edward Hartwig from the album "Halny.":

An opera in four acts. Performance staged in Polish language with English surtitles.

While Fryderyk Chopin gained great recognition in France as a cultural ambassador of an oppressed nation, his younger contemporary, Stanisław Moniuszko, worked in the cultural field in his own homeland. Like Chopin, Moniuszko combined Western European romanticism with the spirit of Polish culture in his works. HALKA is undoubtedly an example of a successful fusion of Italian, French, and German opera traits with elements typical of Polish folklore and tradition. Moreover, this opera, thanks to its patriotic and critical portrayal of social relations, became an expression of national identity.

To understand this operatic allegory about an abandoned girl, one must place it in the context of social discord that led to the bloody Galician slaughter during Moniuszko's time. Halka is a character suspended between two worlds: the corrupt nobility and the vengeful highlanders. There are no unequivocally good or bad characters here. This is not a tearful melodrama. It is a cruel parable of human loneliness.

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