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Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: Recalling Cinematic Legacies, Pt. 1: Halka

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Throughout the Opera Meets Film series, we’ve explored a great deal of opera/film relationships. From stage adaptations of films, experimental works, documentaries, controversial stories and plots, and even dialogues on academic research, the opera-film relationship is complex. The very term, opera, can mean many things, from a metaphor to a psychology of struggle. But practically, when opera is used in {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Ballet & Opera 2025-26 Review: Royal Ballet and Opera Jette Parker Summer Performance

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“I often go for the underdog”, commented David Gowland, Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet and Opera’s Jette Parker Artists Programme, musing on how he selects participants for the highly competitive training scheme, in an interview with Sophie Rashbrook to commemorate 25 years and working with over 150 artists since the programme’s inception in 2001. On Sunday, July 26th, the {…}

News

Mariana Poltorak to Perform in 22nd Festival of Polish Music in Kraków

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Soprano Mariana Poltorak is set to present a recital at the 22nd Festival of Polish Music in Kraków. The “Acroama Magistrorum” master recital series at the Aula Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University will be devoted to Polish songs and Polish opera arias. The program will feature works by Karol Szymanowski, Tadeusz Szeligowski, Mieczysław Karłowicz, Stanisław Moniuszko, Ludomir Różycki, and {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Baltic Opera Festival 2026 Review: Polish Wedding

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(Photo: Krzysztof Mystkowski/ Baltic Opera Festival) Józef Beer’s “Polish Wedding” is one of those works in which history seems almost as dramatic as its plot. Premiered in Zurich in 1937 under the title “Polnische Hochzeit,” the operetta became an immediate international success, was translated into eight languages (but not Polish), and quickly established itself across Europe. Then history intervened. As {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Baltic Opera Festival 2026 Review: Die Walküre

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(Photo: Krzysztof Mystkowski/ Baltic Opera Festival) Richard Wagner’s “Die Walküre” unfolds in a world governed by contracts, power structures, and inherited systems of control. Yet beneath its mythological surface lies a drama about the moment when those systems begin to fail. In John Fulljames’s production, presented at the Forest Opera in Sopot as a co-production of the Royal Danish Theatre {…}

Interviews, Stage Spotlight

Q & A: Polish Baritone Artur Ruciński on Count di Luna & How Opera is a Bridge to Humanity

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(Photo: Karpati & Zarewicz) Polish baritone Artur Ruciński is one of those artists for whom opera has never been merely a display of vocal mastery. For more than 25 years, he has built an extensive Verdi repertoire, returning to its great roles with fresh eyes each time. In Madrid, where Ruciński is performing Count di Luna in Giuseppe Verdi’s “Il {…}

News

Cast Change: Natalia Rubis Replaces Aleksandra Kurzak at Krakow Opera’s ‘Aida’

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The Krakow Opera has announced a cast change for its June 25 performance of Verdi’s “Aida.” The company said, “that due to the ill health of Aleksandra Kurzak, who was announced to perform Aida, will be able to perform the role.” As a result, Natalia Rubis will sing the title role. The Polish soprano has performed at the Wrocław Opera, {…}

News, Season Announcement

Angelica Antonini, Núria Rial, Andrzej Filończyk, Mark Padmore Star in National Forum of Music’s 2026-27 Season

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The National Forum of Music announces its 2026-27 season. This article feature classical voice works only. Mark Padmore performs Bach’s “Ich habe genug” at the Krzyżowa-Music festival. Performance Date: Aug. 30, 2026 Thomas Guggeis conducts a concert version of Saint-Saëns’ “Samson et Dalila” starring Brian Jagde and Anita Rachvelishvili in the title roles.  They are joined by Kostas Smoriginas, Peter {…}