New Year’s Eve Gala

Conductor: Andriy Yurkevych
Directed by: Jarosław Kilian
Chorus master: Bogdan Gola
Lighting: Stanisław Zięba
Video projections: Ewa Krasucka

Soloists:
Nadine Sierra – soprano
Małgorzata Walewska – mezzo-soprano
Jacek Laszczkowski – tenor
Artur Ruciński – baritone
Rafał Siwek – bass

Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
Participants of Opera Academy 

Hosted by Julia Rosnowska and Wojciech Zimiński

Programme 

Part 1
Gioacchino Rossini
overture from the opera Guillaume Tell
Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera 

Giuseppe Verdi
Tutto e’deserto... Il balen del suo sorriso 
Count di Luna's aria from Act II from the opera Il Trovatore
libretto: Salvatore Cammarano after Antonio García Gutiérrez 
Artur Ruciński

Stanisław Moniuszko
Szumią jodły 
Jontek's aria from Act IV from the opera Halka
Libretto: Włodzimierz Wolski
Jacek Laszczkowski

Franz Lehár
Vilja, o vilja 
Hanna's song from Act II from the operetta The Merry Widow
Libretto: Victor Léon, Leo Stein after Henri Meilhac
Nadine Sierra 
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera

Giuseppe Verdi
Gypsy choir from Act II from the opera Il Trovatore
Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano after Antonio García Gutiérrez
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera  

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
Madamina, il catalogo è questo 
Leporello's aria from Act I from the opera Don Giovanni
Libretto: Lorenzo da Ponte after Giovanni Bertati
Rafał Siwek

Franz Lehár
Hör ich Zymbalklänge
Ilona's csárdás from Act III from the operetta Gypsy Love
Libretto: Alfred Willner, Robert Bodanzky 
Małgorzata Walewska

Vincenzo Bellini
Riccardo! Riccardo! Il duol che si m'accora – Suoni la tromba, e intrepido 
Riccardo and Giorgio's duet from Act II from the opera I Puritani
Libretto: Carlo Pepoli
Artur Ruciński and Rafał Siwek

Gioacchino Rossini 
Tout change et grandit 
Finale from Act IV from the opera Guillaume Tell
Participants of Opera Academy:
Lucyna Jarząbek – soprano
Joanna Motulewicz – mezzo-soprano
Piotr Maciejowski – tenor
Andrzej Filończyk – baritone
Paweł Kołodziej – bass
Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera 

Part 2
Johann Strauss, the Son
Overture from the operetta The Gypsy Baron
Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera
 
Giuseppe Verdi
Va, pensiero
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Act III from the opera Nabucco
Libretto: Temistocle Solera after Aniceta-Burgeois and Francis Corune 
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera

Gioacchino Rossini
La calunnia è un venticello 
Basilio's aria from Act I from the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Libretto: Cesare Sterbini after Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais
Rafał Siwek

Gioacchino Rossini
Largo al factotum
Figaro's aria from Act I from the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Libretto: Cesare Sterbini after Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais 
Artur Ruciński

Francesco Cilea
È la solita storia del pastore... Anch’io vorrei
Federico's lament from Act II from the opera L'Arlesiana
Libretto: Leopoldo Marenco
Jacek Laszczkowski

Jacques Offenbach
Ah, que j'aime les militaires
Duchess's aria from Act I from the opera La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein 
Libretto: Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy 
Małgorzata Walewska 
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera  

Leonard Bernstein
Glitter and be Gay 
Cunegonde's aria from Act I from the opera Candide 
Libretto: Lillian Hellman, Richard Wilbur (and Hugh Wheeler, John Treville LaTouche, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Sondheim) after Voltaire
Nadine Sierra

Stanisław Moniuszko 
Hej, zagrajcie siarczyście
Mazurka from Act IV from the opera The Haunted Manor
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera

Giuseppe Verdi 
Libiamo, libiamo ne' lieti calici
Brindisi from Act I from the opera La Traviata
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave after Alexandre Dumas, fils
Nadine Sierra
Małgorzata Walewska
Jacek Laszczkowski 
Artur Ruciński 
Rafał Siwek 
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera