Liudmyla Monastyrska, Małgorzata Walewska, Tomasz Konieczny and Rafał Siwek featured at the Baltic Opera Festival 2024
The second edition of the Baltic Opera Festival will be held in the Tricity agglomeration on July 20-25, 2024.
Liudmyla Monastyrska, Rafał Siwek and Martin Muehle will sing leading roles in Puccini’s “Turandot“. They will be joined on stage by: Jacek Laszczkowski, Izabela Matuła, Tomasz Rak, Aleksander Zuchowicz, Mateusz Zajdel and Stephano Park. Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. Directed by Waldemar Zawodziński, the production will be shown on July 20 and 25, 2024 at the Forest Opera in Sopot.
Tomasz Konieczny performs the title role in Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman“. The production also features: Rafał Siwek, Vida Mikneviciute, Dominik Sutowicz, Małgorzata Walewska and Rafał Bartmiński. On stage July 24, 2024 at the Forest Opera in Sopot.
Beethoven’s “Symphony No 9”, in a unique Ukrainian language version, features soloists: Izabela Matuła, Małgorzata Walewska, Piotr Buszewski and Tomasz Konieczny. They will be accompanied by the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir and the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson. On stage July 23, 2024 at Stocznia CRIST S.A. (CRIST Shipyard) in Gdynia.
The production of the Grand Theater in Łódź, Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” will be directed by Natalia Babińska. Rafał Janiak takes over as Music Director. The cast has not been announced yet. On stage July 21 and 22, 2024 at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk.
Initiative of the Polish bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, the first edition of the festival was held in the Tricity agglomeration in 2023. The concept of the Baltic Opera Festival is to present premiere opera productions featuring singers and creatives from Poland and abroad. The project was inspired by the pre-war tradition of staging opera works in Sopot, thanks to which the city was called the Bayreuth of the North in the 1930s.
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