5 premiere performances, together with one world premiere, two festivals, particular live shows and anniversaries, distinctive artists and subsequent revivals – though the Grand Theater is getting ready two extra necessary occasions by the tip of the season: an opera Manon Lescaut (premiere: June 8, 2024) and a ballet efficiency 4: Shepherd / Leon & Lightfoot / Bondara (premiere: June 22, 2024), this already proclaims plans for the approaching months. Season 24/25 on the Poznań Opera will begin on the finish of September.
photograph: Maciej Zakrzewski/mat. theater
The renovated stage of the Grand Theater was intensively used throughout the finish of the 23/24 inventive season. Over 150 opera and ballet performances had been offered. Nevertheless, not all titles
from the theater’s wealthy repertoire returned to the stage. Within the upcoming season, the viewers can have the chance to see additional renewals, together with: lengthy awaited Aida with renewed spectacular scenography by Jean Antoine Hierro, Magic Flute i Barber of Seville. Moreover Barber will deliver a shock to Poznań’s music lovers. The a part of Figaro might be carried out by Andrzej Filończyk, who was invited to Poznań in 2014 by the then inventive director of the theater, Gabriel Chmura. The then debuting w Barberafter which performing the a part of Tonio in Clowns The singer Leoncavalla started his conquest of worldwide opera levels. At present, the artist is likely one of the most acknowledged soloists of the younger era, which is confirmed by the distinguished Worldwide Opera Award, which he acquired in 2023. Poznań Barber Andrzej Filończyk will rejoice his tenth anniversary of stage work. The artist might be accompanied by different famend soloists who’ve carried out in Poznań in recent times: Randal Payments and Krzysztof Bączyk.
Along with well-known titles, performances produced throughout the renovation and premiered within the halls of the Poznań Worldwide Truthful might be proven underneath Pegaz. Will or not it’s doable to recreate the seaside the place the motion happened? Rusalki staged by Karolina Sofulak and carried out by Martin Leginus? As on the theater stage, falling out is rewarded Yawn? We’ll discover out within the 24/25 season, nevertheless it would not be doable…
…if it weren’t for individuals
After celebrating the return to the stage, it is time to present those that make it exist. The 24/25 season might be held underneath the slogan GENERATIONS, emphasizing the continuity of the opera custom in Poznań. In 2025, the Theater will rejoice 115 years of existence, and its historical past – no matter historic turmoil and modifications within the names of streets and establishments – continues, enjoying an necessary function within the lives of subsequent artists and viewers.
Since its institution (1910), the opera stage in Poznań has been a spot the place abilities had been born and developed,
and the place opera traditions had been nurtured and handed on to subsequent generations. The season’s slogan GENERATIONS is a tribute to those that have been creating historical past for many years – each on stage and behind the scenes.
Moniuszko discovered, operatic Gombrowicz and Puccini
The Theater’s repertoire might be enriched with three opera and two ballet performances within the 24/25 season. The premiere implementation is deliberate for the tip of September Tile Stanisław Moniuszko (28/09/2024) directed by Barbara Ballot and musically directed by Rafał Kłoczko. The exhibition might be attention-grabbing as a result of it’s going to embrace a chamber model of the opera, which was found by Jakub Lis, a musicologist-detective, as he calls himself, specializing in
within the music of Moniuszko and Karol Kurpiński.
After the “father” of Polish opera, time will come for the creator who knew the secrets and techniques of the Polish soul greatest. November will deliver a brand new opera impressed by Zygmunt Krauze A marriage Witold Gombrowicz (November 22, 2024). For steering
Krzysztof Cicheński is accountable for the libretto, and Katarzyna Tomala-Jedynak would be the conductor. Marriage ceremony might be offered within the 12 months of the one hundred and twentieth anniversary of the writer’s delivery and the fifty fifth anniversary of the writer’s demise Ferdydurke. Zygmunt Krauze’s new composition was created as a part of the composition fee program run by the Nationwide Institute of Music and Dance. It is not going to solely be the premiere presentation of the opera, but additionally the primary collaboration between an excellent composer and a Poznań ensemble within the historical past of the Grand Theater. The primary elements might be performed by Jan Jakub Monowid and Michał Partyka.
The third opera premiere will happen in June (June 7, 2025). Jacek Kaspszyk, music director of the Grand Theater, will lead Turandot Puccini, might be directed by Ran Arthur Braun, recognized for his unbridled stage creativeness. We will subsequently make sure that the musical and vocal ability might be accompanied by a colourful staging, as is the case with Ran Braun’s work – a minimum of explosive.
Jacek Kaspszyk may also be accountable for the resumption The Magic Fluteand also will conduct live shows on the event of Independence Day and Battle Verdi. A particular occasion would be the efficiency underneath his baton Requiem Gabriel Fauré (17/04/2025), one of the vital stunning works of this style, referred to as “a lullaby of demise”.
About love and the feminine perspective
The Grand Theater Ballet will put together two premiere performances within the 24/25 season. In December (December 6, 2024), three choreographers will take over the stage: Marguerite Donlon, Anne Jung and Katarzyna Kozielska. Donlon will current the choreography To the moon and again, which was impressed by the heroines of Helmut Newton’s photographs – tall, slender, on the similar time robust and self-confident. The 2 remaining choreographers will put together new works. Whether or not we are going to get to know the feminine perspective of dance, or whether or not the Poznań viewers can have the chance to satisfy different main names within the dance world – we are going to discover out in December.
Robert Bondara additionally proclaims his new premiere (June 27, 2025). This time, the choreographer will use a theme that has had many productions, together with ballet ones. It is going to be a recent story concerning the love of Romeo and Juliet in a world plunged into conflict and social conflicts. The inspiration for Bondara is the story of Mahmoud Darwish and Tamar Ben-Avi – a Palestinian and an Israeli girl.
Season numbers
26 opera and ballet titles might be carried out on the stage of the Theater. He’ll host the performances
11 conductors. Among the many visitor soloists, along with Andrzej Filończyk, Randal Payments, Jan Jakub Monowid, Michał Partyka and Krzysztof Bączyk, we are going to hear Andrzej Dobber (Rigoletto, Traviata), Monika Ledzion (Aida), Wojtek Gierlach (The Marriage of Figaro) and Szymon Mechliński.
Along with the everlasting opera and ballet repertoire, deliberate revivals and transfers, there’ll after all be no scarcity of particular occasions. With the premiere Tile the second version of the “Moniuszko Competition” will start (September 28-October 13, 2024), which – as introduced – “is to proceed the custom and nurture the composer’s achievements and produce out the spark in Moniuszko once more that made his work unite and encourage troublesome moments, and was a chance to rejoice the enjoyment of victory and freedom. Along with performances, live shows are deliberate as a part of the Competition. He’ll carry out, amongst others: MoniuszkoStringQuartet. The youngest, or reasonably the youngest, music lovers may also obtain their occasion. most MONIUSZKO is a musical assembly for youngsters and their guardians, impressed by Moniuszko’s “Golden Fish”. The second version of the “Early Spring Ballet” pageant (March 20-29, 2025) will start with a efficiency Spectrum carried out by female and male dancers of the Grand Theater Ballet. Along with debuting artists, the pageant will function, amongst others: Akram Khan Firm with a efficiency Jungle ebook reimagined.
Wanting on the repertoire of the 24/25 season, we’re satisfied that each era will discover its inspiration there.
