'You will look for candlelit windows in vain...'

Gone are, gone are the little Jewish towns in Poland
In Hrubieszów, Karczew, Brody, Falenica
You will look for candlelit windows in vain
Or listen out for singing at the wooden synagogue.

Antoni Słonimski, Elegy for Little Jewish Towns, 1947 (excerpt)

PROGRAMME:

Szymon Laks, Mieczysław Weinberg, Abraham Goldfaden, Maurice Ravel, Yuliy Meitus, Viktor Ullmann, Benzion Witler, Kazimierz Oberfeld

PERFORMERS:

Justyna Khil – soprano
Mariana Poltorak – soprano
Magdalena Lucjan – soprano
Sylwia Ziółkowska – soprano
Zuzanna Nalewajek – mezzo-soprano
Dominika Stefańska – mezzo-soprano
Oleksandra Diachenko – mezzo-soprano
Jakub Foltak – countertenor
Sebastian Mach – tenor
Adrian Domarecki – tenor
Adrian Janus – baritone
Aleksander Kaczuk-Jagielnik – baritone
Nazar Mykulyak – baritone
Jan Kubas – bass-baritone
Grzegorz Pelutis – bass-baritone

Pianists:

Natalia Pawlaszek
Klara Janus
Gabriela Lasota
Rozalia Kierc
Tetiana Boilo
Kamila Łopatka
Olha Kozlan
Paulina Storka
Matteo Zoli
Michał Skowronek

OPERA ACADEMY OF THE POLISH NATIONAL OPERA

A FUTURE-ORIENTED CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR YOUNG OPERA TALENTS

The programme has been in place at the Polish National Opera since 2011, offering exceptionally talented young singers and pianists opportunities for further development and training under excellent international teachers and opera artists: singers, stage directors, répétiteurs, and language coaches.

Regular teaching staff includes Izabella Kłosińska, Olga Pasichnyk, Eytan Pessen, and Matthias Rexroth. Visiting professors include Ewa Podleś, Anita Garanča, Jerzy Marchwiński, Dale Fundling, Andrzej Dobber, Dmitry Vdovin, David Pountney, Brenda Hurley, Hedwig Fassbender, René Massis, Neil Shicoff, Sergei Leiferkus, Helmut Deutsch, Mariusz Kwiecień, Lech Napierała, and Tomasz Konieczny.

OPERA ACADEMY MEMBERS ARE OFFERED:

• regular workshops and masterclasses,
• individual singing, acting and language coaching sessions,
• ongoing professional support,
• international networking opportunities,
• chances to perform in Opera Academy concerts at the Polish National Opera and other venues in Poland and abroad
• chances to perform in Opera Academy productions (A Miracle, or Cracovians and Highlaners, About the Kingdom of Day and Night and Magic Instruments),
• opportunities to be cast in Polish National Opera’s shows. 

Thanks to the Polish National Opera’s membership in European Network of Opera Academies, or ENOA, an EU project bringing together thirteen culture institutions from ten countries, selected Opera Academy workshops are held under the Network’s auspices, while the Academy sponsors its members’ participation in workshops held by other ENOA institutions.

Former Academy members have enjoyed success on such European stages as the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, Opernhaus Zürich, the Bolshoi in Moscow, Royal Opera House in London, Oper Frankfurt, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Komische Oper Berlin, and Opéra National de Paris.