Performances

Casanova in Warsaw

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / Krzysztof Pastor

26,27,28,29 January 2017

Ballet in two acts | Idea and libretto: Paweł Chynowski, based on the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova | World premiere: 28 May 2015

• Idea and libretto: Paweł Chynowski
• Choreography and directing: Krzysztof Pastor
• Conductor and music concept: Jakub Chrenowicz
• Set and Costume design: Gianni Quaranta
• Lighting design: Daniele Nannuzzi

Don Quixote

Minkus / Petipa, Gorski, Alexei Fadeyechev

8,9,10,11,12 February 2017,
1,2 March 2017

Ballet in three acts | Libretto: Marius Petipa after Miguel de Cervantes | Premiere: 29 May 2014

• Choreography: Marius Petipa
• Choreography: Aleksandr Gorski
• New version of the choreography: Alexei Fadeyechev
• Conductor: Alexei Baklan
• Set and costume: Thomas Mika
• Lights director: Steen Bjarke

Guillaume Tell

Gioacchino Rossini

19,22,25 February 2017

Opera in four acts | Libretto: Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis | Premiere of this production: 12 September 2014, Cardiff | Premiere: 21 June 2015 | In the original French with Polish surtitles

• Conductor: Andriy Yurkevych
• Director: David Pountney
• Set Designer: Raimund Bauer
• Costume Designer: Marie-Jeanne Lecca
• Choreography: Amir Hosseinpour
• Lighting Designer: Fabrice Kebour

La Bayadère

Minkus / Petipa, Natalia Makarowa

2,5,6,8 October 2016

Ballet in three acts | Libretto: Marius Petipa, Sergei Khudyakov | Premiere: 15 May 2004

• Choreography after Marius Petipa: Natalia Makarowa
• Conductor: Alexei Baklan
• Set and costume designer: Jadwiga M. Jarosiewicz
• Lighting designer: Stanisław Zięba

La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi

7,8,9,11,12,13 April 2017

Opera in three acts | Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave after Alexander Dumas fils | Premiere: 25 February 2010 | In the original Italian with Polish surtitles

• Conductor: Andriy Yurkevych
• Director: Mariusz Treliński
• Set design: Boris Kudlička
• Costume design: Tomasz Ossoliński
• Costume design: Gosia Baczyńska
• Choreography: Tomasz Jan Wygoda
• Dramaturgy: Piotr Gruszczyński
• Chorus master: Mirosław Janowski
• Lighting design: Marc Heinz
• Video projections: Darek Błaszczyk / Cókierek

Madama Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini

23,25,28,30 June 2017

Japanese tragedy in three acts | Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica | Premiere: 29 May 1999 | In the original Italian with Polish surtitles

• Conductor: Piotr Staniszewski
• Director: Mariusz Treliński
• Set Designer: Boris Kudlička
• Costume Designer: Magdalena Tesławska
• Costume Designer: Paweł Grabarczyk
• Choreography: Emil Wesołowski
• Lighting Designer: Stanisław Zięba

Matsukaze

21,22,23 April 2017

Opera in one act | Libretto: Hannah Dübgen after Motokiyo Zeami | Sung in German |Co-producers: Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH; La Monnaie, Brussels; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin | Polish premiere: 31 May 2011

• Conductor: Bassem Akiki
• Directing and choreography: Sasha Waltz
• Set design: Pia Maier Schriever
• Set design: Chiharu Shiota
• Costume design: Christine Birkle
• Lighting design: Martin Hauk
• Dramaturgy: Ilka Seifert

Moby Dick

7,9 May 2017

Opera-mystery in four acts | Libretto: Krzysztof Koehler after Herman Melville | Sung in English

• Conductor: Gabriel Chmura
• Director: Barbara Wysocka
• Set Designer: Barbara Hanicka
• Costume Designer: Julia Kornacka
• Choreography: Jacek Przybyłowicz
• Dramaturgy: Tomasz Śpiewak
• Lighting Designer: Marc Heinz
• Video Projections: Lea Mattausch

Nabucco

Giuseppe Verdi

2,4 February 2017,
24,26 March 2017

Opera in four acts | Libretto: Temistocle Solera | Premiere: 26 June 1992 | In original Italian with Polish surtitles

• Conductor: Piotr Staniszewski
• Director: Marek Weiss
• Set design: Andrzej Kreutz Majewski
• Costume design: Jacek Majewski
• Choreography: Emil Wesołowski
• Chorus master: ***
• Lighting design: Jerzy Bojar

Obsessions

Schubert / Krzysztof Pastor | Karłowicz / Emil Wesołowski | Schnittke, Górecki

7,8,9,10 December 2016

Triple bill of ballets | ADAGIO & SCHERZO Schubert / Pastor | RETURNING WAVES Karłowicz / Wesołowski | MOVING ROOMS Schnittke, Górecki / Pastor

• Adagio & Scherzo / Choreography: Krzysztof Pastor
• Adagio & Scherzo / Set design and Projections: Małgorzata Szabłowska
• Adagio & Scherzo / Costumes: Marta Fiedler
• Adagio & Scherzo / Lighting: Maciej Igielski
• Returning Waves / Choreography: Emil Wesołowski
• Returning Waves / Set design: Boris Kudlička
• Returning Waves / Costumes: Irena Biegańska
• Returning Waves / Lighting: Maciej Igielski
• Moving Rooms / Choreography: Krzysztof Pastor
• Moving Rooms / Costumes: Oliver Haller
• Moving Rooms / Lighting: Bert Dalhuysen

Onegin

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

11,13,15,17,19,22 January 2017

Lyrical scenes in three acts (seven scenes) | Libretto: Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Konstantin Shilovsky after Alexander Pushkin | Original Russian libretto | Premiere: 5 April 2002

• Conductor: Andriy Yurkevych
• Director: Mariusz Treliński
• Set Designer: Boris Kudlička
• Costume design: Joanna Klimas
• Choreography: Emil Wesołowski
• Lighting design: Felice Ross

Persona

Pärt, Szymański, Nawrocka / Robert Bondara

13,14,15,16 October 2016,
12,14 January 2017

Ballet in two parts | Choreography: Robert Bondara | Polish National Ballet | Music from recordings | World Premiere: 18 September 2011

• Choreography: Robert. Bondara
• Set and costume designer: Julia Skrzynecka
• Set and costume designer: Diana Marszałek
• Video projections: Ewa Krasucka
• Lighting designer: Maciej Igielski

The Haunted Manor

Stanisław Moniuszko

12,13,15 November 2016

Opera in four acts | Libretto: Jan Chęciński | World premiere: 28 September 1865, Teatr Wielki, Warsaw | Premiere of this production: 8 November 2016 | In the original Polish with English surtitles

• Conductor: Ewa Strusińska
• Conductor: Marta Kluczyńska
• Director: David Pountney
• Set designer: Leslie Travers
• Costume designer: Marie-Jeanne Lecca
• Choreography: Emil Wesołowski
• Lighting designer: Fabrice Kebour

The Miracle, or Cracovians and Highlanders

Jan Stefani

9,11,12,13 April 2017

Vodeville in four acts | Libretto: Wojciech Bogusławski | Premiere: 13 March 2015 | In the original Polish

• Music director: Władysław Kłosiewicz
• Director: Jarosław Kilian
• Set designer: Izabela Chełkowska
• Choreography: Emil Wesołowski
• Lighting designer: Maciej Igielski
• Chorus master: Danuta Chmurska

The Nutckracker and the Mouse King

Pyotr Tchaikovsky / Toer van Schayk, Wayne Eagling

23,27,28,29 December 2016

Ballet in two acts | Libretto: Marius Petipa after E.T.A. Hoffmann | Premiere: 25 November 2011

• Choreography: Wayne Eagling
• Choreography: Toer van Schayk
• Conductor: Marta Kluczyńska
• Set and costume designer: Toer van Schayk
• Lighting: Bert Dalhuysen
• Choreographers’ Assistant: Natalia Hoffmann
• Choreographers’ Assistant: Caroline Iura
• Choreographers’ Assistant: Joseph Kerwin
• Choreographers’ Assistant: Jarmo Rastas
• Choreographers’ Assistant: Steven Etienne

The Passenger

Mieczysław Weinberg

18,20 September 2016

Opera in two acts, eight scenes and an epilogue | Libretto: Aleksandr Medvedev after Sofia Posmysz | A multilingual version

• Conductor: Gabriel Chmura
• Director: David Pountney
• Set desiger: Johan Engels
• Costume designer: Marie-Jeanne Lecca
• Lighting designer: Fabrice Kebour

The Taming of the Shrew

Stolze, Scarlatti / John Cranko

30,31 March 2017,
1,2 April 2017

Ballet in two acts | Libretto: John Cranko after William Shakespeare | Polish premiere: 27 November 2015

• Choreography: John Cranko
• Conductor: Piotr Staniszewski
• Set and costume design: Elisabeth Dalton
• Lighting design and set supervision: Steen Bjarke
• Staging: Jane Bourne
• Costume supervision : Diana Eckmann

The Tempest

Purcell, Tallis, Johnson, Locke, Van der Aa / Krzysztof Pastor

28,29,30 October 2016

Ballet in two acts after William Shakespeare | Music: Henry Purcell, Thomas Tallis, Robert Johnson, Matthew Locke, Michel van der Aa and traditional Iranian music | Premiere: 9 April 2016

• Choreography: Krzysztof Pastor
• Conductor: Matthew Rowe
• Video projections: Shirin Neshat
• Video projections: Shoja Azari
• Set and lighting designer: Jean Kalman
• Costume designer: Tatyana van Walsum
• Dramatist: Willem Bruls
• Assistant to the choreographer: Sandrine Leroy
• Assistant to the choreographer: Judy Maelor Thomas
• Musical consultant: Jan Pieter Koch