The Narodowe Forum Muzyki (NFM) has announced the season for the 59th International Festival Wratislavia Cantans. Here is a rundown of the vocal performances on offer.

The season opens with “Triumph in Time” featuring Händel’s “Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno,” conducted by Giovanni Antonini. The cast stars Anett Fritsch, Julia Lezhneva, Lucile Richardot, and Krystian Adam Krzeszowiak.

Performance Date: Sept. 5, 2024

“Transfer of Ideas” features the Festival Ensemble under Andrzej Kosendiak and participants in the 48th Oratorio and Cantata Music Interpretation Course. The program features arias from Händel’s “Almira’ and Keiser’s “Almira.”

Performance Date: Sept. 7, 2024

Conductor Pedro Memelsdorff leads “Kourou – towards Paradise,” a four-part program of works by Gossec, Hinner, de Tremais, Giornovichi, and Ortiz, among others. Kathrin Hottiger, Markéta Cukrová, Marco Saccardin, and Luca Cervoni are the vocal soloists.

Performance Date: Sept. 7, 2024

Soprano Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk leads “Emigrants,” a program featuring works by Szajna-Lewandowska, Palester, Kilar, Schaeffer, and Sikora, among others. Anna Sulkowska-Migon conducts the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra.

Performance Date: Sept. 7, 2024

Václav conducts Händel’s “Israel in Egypt” with a cast starring Helena Hozová, Tereza Zimková, Benno Schachtner, Krystian Adam Krzezowiak, Tomás Selc, and Tadeás Hoza.

Performance Date: Sept. 8, 2024

Yarloslaw Shemet conducts works by Górecki with Izabela Matula and Adam Kutny as the vocal soloists.

Performance Date: Sept. 12, 2024

Malgorzata Podzielny conducts soloists, the NFM Boy’s Choir, the NFM Girl’s Choir, and instrumentalists from the NFM and students of music schools in Britten’s “Noye’s Fludde.”

Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2024

The Ensemble Basiani presents “Travelling to the Source,” a program featuring such vocal soloists as Tornike Merabishvili, Giorgi Kunashvili, Elizabar Khachidze, Zviad Michilashvili, and George Donadze, among others.

Performance Date: Sept. 14, 2024

The season ends with Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 in F minor and Symphony in D minor.  Christoph Eschenbach conducts soloists, the NFM Choir, and the NFM Wroclaw Philharmonic.

Performance Date: Sept. 15, 2024