THE HAUNTED
MANOR

Stanisław Moniuszko

  • Act I

    1 h 30 min

  • Intermission

    30 min

  • Act II

    1 h 30 min

  • Intermission

    30 min

  • Act III

    1 h 30 min

  • Intermission

    30 min

  • Act IV

    1 h 30 min

Duration: 3 h 30 min

Performances

Opera in four acts
Libretto: Jan Chęciński
World premiere: 28/09/1865, Teatr Wielki, Warsaw
Premiere of this production: 9/02/2001
Original language version with English surtitles

A national opera written by a composer deprived of his country (but not his nation!) at a time of waiting for a watershed and dwelling upon the fall of the January Uprising. Hence, everything is sort of unreal, idealized: the manor, the idyllic characters, the comedy intrigue whose sources we can find in both Maiden Vows by Aleksander Fredro and the immortal Pan Tadeuszby Adam Mickiewicz. When we watch this opera – about the two who were afraid of a clock – staged by master director Grabowski, our soul is immediately relieved. And feel this soul we must when the mazurka, the polonaise, the dumkas resound, all that familiarity of Stanisław Moniuszko’s music which has been our national baggage, part of our collective emotional memory – or maybe a curse, too – for nearly 150 years. But it seems like forever...

Cast

2014-01-24 | 19:00

Credits

Sponsors

  • Partnerzy Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej

  • Partner technologiczny Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej

  • Patroni medialni Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej

  • Partners of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

  • Technological partner of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

  • Media patrons of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera