Sing it for me

Another concert in memory of the great actor and famous personality of Polish culture.

To mark the 92th anniversary of the birth of Gustaw Holoubek, we are holding a special programme made up of fragments of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Canticum canticorum and a recorded recitation of The Song of Songs by Gustaw Holoubek from the archives of Polish Radio. 

The Polish Radio Choir under Izabelia Polakowska-Rybska

Free entry passes may be collected from at the Teatre's box offices from 9 April. 

In association with: Program 2 Polskiego Radia (Polish Radio – Program 2) 

“Today, when after all these years we look upon the output of this artist, we have in mind mainly his voice recognizable after the first syllable and familiar face – piercing eyes, sadness mixed with irony or with a pale smile – and we think in awe of his titanic work, which he put into construction of nearly three hundred creations: theater, film, television, and radio ones. But that’s not all. He was also director, teacher in the acting school, and social activist: taking the floor, leading, even becoming a Member of Parliament.

And yet it all seems not to be the most important. Not the gigantic effort, not the brilliant talent and not the social sensitivity (without which, of course, there would be nothing to talk about), but something that is superior to these attributes: namely, belief in the ideal and the upper world as well as a sense of mission to remind of them – to bring closer their light in the darkness of “miserable time”.

Antoni Libera