She was an avid popularizer of Stanisław Moniuszko’s music, the founder and long-standing director of the International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition. She died at 88 in a Warsaw hospital after a long and difficult illness.
Maria Fołtyn has passed away
Maria Fołtyn – an outstanding opera singer and director – passed away on 2 December 2012.
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- Opera Academy Auditions
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- Celebrate Moniuszko’s 201st with us!
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- Treliński named 2020 Ambassador for Culture
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- Treliński’s ‘Halka’ premieres on 11 February
- PNB Announces Promotions to Principal Dancer
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- Traffic changes and closures
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- Unforgettable danseur noble immortalised on film
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- Second call for dancers/actors
- Moniuszko Competition hits record viewership
- Polish singers in Met’s Top 10
- The Long Night of Museums
- Winners announced!
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- The 2019/20 Season
- Pastor’s Dracula named Best New Work in West Australia
- Watch the Moniuszko Vocal Competition live
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- 10 Years of the Polish National Ballet
- Fredriana, or a night with Fredro and Moniuszko
- Konieczny impresses at the Met
- Maestro ho capito!
- King Roger in Stockholm
- Pearls of Dance 2019
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- Railway Station named for Moniuszko
- CARA ITALIA, ALFIN TI MIRO
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- Stock up for Christmas!
- 10th Days of Dance
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- Pastor’s ‘Rain’ Returns
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- Robert Bondara wins a prize in Bordeaux
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- 2018 World Dance Day
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- The Lady of the Camellias to open on 20 April 2018
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- Road closures and traffic disruptions
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- This is a dachshund’s world
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- Polish National Opera on Tour
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- Long Night of Museums 2017
- Singing, dance and rhythm in nō theatre
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- Pastor’s The Tempest goes to St Petersburg
- Chopin’s opera
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- VOD: The Tempest
- Casting call for ‘Carmen’
- The Joffrey takes Pastor’s piece to NYC
- PZU Warsaw Half Marathon
- Reactions to Il turco in Italia
- Dawid Trzensimiech to dance in Bologna
- The PNB’s stars in Barcelona and Ostrava
- A taste of Rossini
- Creations Number Nine
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- Pastor in Pictures: Book release
- Pastor in Amsterdam
- A nomination for Goplana
- Meet the director
- Photos from Vilnius
- Waldemar Dąbrowski awarded
- Christmas ticket
- Temporary car park closure
- Lithuanian tribute to Krzysztof Pastor
- Pastor’s ballet at Theater Augsburg
- The PNB’s festival performances
- Ballets for birthday
- A Scarf for Chopin
- Successful autumn
- The Haunted Manor on VOD
- Gloria Artis for Małgorzata Walewska
- Another US triumph for Pastor
- OLBIŃSKI. POSTERS
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- World Ballet Day
- Live from New York
- Maksim Woitul’s jubilee
- The music of noh theatre
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- Traffic disruptions
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- Daniela Dessi dies at 59
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- Chopin and His Europe
- AMADEUS WIND ENSEMBLE
- Our dancers in Japan
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- Krzysztof Pastor’s successful year 2016
- Polish Dance Theatre in Warsaw
- Zawirowania Festival
- Street closures over the weekend
- Fairy Tale, Where Are You?
- The 2016/2017 Season
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- CULTURE.PL SUPERBRANDS AWARD
- Celebration of the Human Voice draws to a close
- YAROSHENKO AND BONDARA WITH GLORIA ARTIS AWARDS
- The Night of Museums
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- Watch Pastor’s Tempest online
- PNB welcomes new first soloists
- The PBN dances in Bydgoszcz
- International Dance Day 2016
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- Stanisław Moniuszko Today
- Pastor and Kudlička with ZAiKS Awards
- Krzysztof Pastor and Dutch art
- Drawing before the tempest
- Historical Event of the Year
- Call for pianist-repetiteur
- Our Shakespeare
- Theatre documentary up for a film award
- Volunteer with Moniuszko Competition
- We’re dancing among stars
- A Meeting with Mariusz Treliński
- Vladimir Yaroshenko in Tokyo with Neumeier
- International Opera Awards 2016
- Woitiul and Kageyama in Ostrava
- The Tempest soon to open in Warsaw
- Müller-Schott to sign his album in Warsaw
- The Lesser-Known Facet of Richard Strauss
- Farewell to our collaborators
- 9th Moniuszko Competition: new application deadline
- Dobkowski at Opera Gallery
- Bondara in Washington
- Wonders of Theatre: an Exhibition
- KAGEYAMA becomes PNB’s soloist
- Watch Iolanta and The Bluebeard’s Castle today
- Google Cultural Institute
- Italian dancers at the PNB
- Christmas concert on 18 December
- Christmas Ticket
- St Nicolas Day at the opera
- ‘Teatr Wielki 50/50’
- Take part in our competition!
- Łukasz Korolkiewicz – exhibition opening
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Be With Me Now
- Marta Frej at the Wielki
- The Bull leaves the Palace
- Crisantemi: From Pastor to the Dutch National Opera
- PNB’s soloists dance in Bydgoszcz
- Watch ‘Aida’ from Teatro Regio
- 24 Hours At The Opera
- Conversations for the New Season
- Powder Her Face conquers Europe
- Powder Her Face in Brussels
- The PNB to tour Poland
- Ebihara and Woitiul in Chisinau
- A Fab Fair in the Teatralny Square!
- Prizes for Opera Academy’s young artists
- New arrivals & promotions at the PNB
- Opera Haute Couture in Białystok
- La Traviata at Savonlinna
- PNB at the presidential palace
- PNB wins the hearts in Washington
- The PNB made a great impression
- New York Times about the PNB
- PNB in New York and Washington
- We Have a Teraz Polska Award Winner
- Farewell to two PNB dancers
- New Season 2015/16
- Liashenko & Woitiul – best dancers of 2014
- Gloria Artis Medals for PNB ballet masters
- Around Powder Her Face
- Watch La Traviata on-line tomorrow
- Krzysztof Pastor decorated
- Don Quixote travels to Bydgoszcz
- International Dance Day 2015
- Sergey Basalaev retires
- Pastor’s ‘Boléro’ in Vilnius and Riga
- The Night of Museums 2015
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- World Theatre Day 2015
- PNB soloists to dance in Gdańsk and Bytom
- Exhibition: Jerzy Tchórzewski
- Premiere of Creations 7
- PNB soloists to dance in Riga, Ostrava, Malmö and Helsingborg
- New Face of ‘Cracovians and Highlanders’
- RHYTM exhibition opens at Kordegarda
- A call for young artists (16-25 year-olds)
- ‘Opera Haute Couture’ open for another month
- Mariusz Treliński will return to the MET in 2016/17
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- PNB to perform in New York and Washington
- New Ballet Based on Gombrowicz
- Mariusz Treliński in ‘Opera News’
- Set design for Casanova in Warsaw completed
- Pastor’s „THE NUTCRACKER” Staged in Vilnius
- TO THE CASUALTIES OF THE GREAT WAR
- Polish National Ballet premieres ‘1914.’
- Pastor’s ‘Nutcracker’ in Vilnius
- Joanna Drabik to perform in London
- Teatr Wielki with a new music director
- Treliński’s ‘Salome’ opens in Prague
- Bondara’s double bill at Wrocław Opera
- ‘The Merchant of Venice’ opens the 2014/15 season
- La folle journée de Varsovie
- Waldemar Dąbrowski previews the new season
- BARTOSZ ANCZYKOWSKI Dances in Hong Kong
- Promotions, farewells, new dancers 2014-15
- Filip Barankiewicz to Perform in „Don Quixote”
- Pastor’s ‘The Tempest’ at Het Nationale Ballet
- Krzysztof Pastor Receives Minister’s Prize
- ‘Don Quixote’ Returns
- PNB Stars in Bytom
- Aleksandra Lishenko and Sebastian Solecki Receive Gloria Artis Silver Medals
- Yuka Ebihara and Vladimir Yaroshenko Best Dancers of the Past Season
- Two Premieres by Mariusz Treliński at the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff
- Krzysztof Pastor’s „Romeo and Juilet” at the Joffrey Ballet
- Waldemar Dąbrowski, director of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, among Super Wiktor recipients
- Treliński’s productions debut at the Welsh National Opera
- Pastor in Warsaw, Chicago, Amsterdam and Vilnius
- THINK TANK FOR CULTURE
- Sergey Popov leaves PNB
- „Echoes of Time” in Vilnius
- Premiere of „Iolanta” and „Bluebeard’s Castle” at the Polish National Opera
- Taking Bach to Barcelona
- The Premiere of Krzysztof Penderecki’s „The Devils of Loudun” Will Open the Season at the Polish National Opera
- Yuka Ebihara - first soloist of the PNB
- „Hamlet” Opens the Season
- La Folle Journée / Wild Days of Music Festival 2013 at the Polish National Opera
- Promotions & new dancers 2013/14
- PNB at Belweder
- Announcing the PNB’s 2013/14 season
- Waldemar Dąbrowski on the 2013/14 season
- Prizewinners’ concert
- Winners announced!
- Finalists of the 2013 Moniuszko Competition
- Second day of auditions
- 2013 Moniuszko Competition press conference
- We know the audition schedule!
- List of participants announced
- Maria Fołtyn has passed away
- First press conference of 2013 Moniuszko Competition
- The full version of the Competition website
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- Results of the 7th Moniuszko Competition
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