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  • RHYTM exhibition opens at Kordegarda

    Exhibitions | We celebrate 50 years of the Teatr Wielki's reopening after World War II with an architectural installation Rhythm designed by Studio Rygalik.

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  • A call for young artists (16-25 year-olds)

    Education Projects and initiatives | The Educational Programmes Department of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera is searching for young people aged 16 to 25 years for a production of The Supposed Miracle, or Cracovians and Highlanders.

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  • 'Opera Haute Couture' open for another month

    Opera Gallery | Welcoming the exhibition's popularity, we have decided to keep it open for viewing until 14 March 2015.

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  • New Ballet Based on Gombrowicz

    Polish National Ballet | The Polish National Ballet will present its latest premiere on 14 February 2015. Titled Pupa (Bottom), it is a collaboration of composer Stanisław Syrewicz, his daughter Klara the librettist, and young choreographer Anna Hop, who have drawn inspiration from Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz.

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  • Mariusz Treliński will return to the MET in 2016/17

    Polish National Opera | It's official! Mariusz Treliński will open the 2016/17 season at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

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  • Standing ovation at the MET

    Polish National Opera | The night of 29 January 2015 brought the long-awaited New York premiere of Iolanta / Bluebeard's Castle directed by Mariusz Treliński

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  • 'New York Times' previews opening of Mariusz Treliński's double bill

    Polish National Opera | 'It may seem cruel, then, to follow Iolanta with a performance of Bluebeard's Castle, Bartok's chilling psycho-thriller about the annihilating power of love taken to obsessive extremes. Yet...'

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  • PNB to perform in New York and Washington

    Polish National Ballet | The Polish National Ballet has become a major company on the international guest performance scene. It boasts an extensive and ambitious repertoire, and its premieres and productions draw the attention of foreign centres whose opinion counts in the world.

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  • Mariusz Treliński in 'Opera News'

    Polish National Opera | John Allison interviews Mariusz Treliński, who brings a filmmaker's sensibility to the Met's new double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard's Castle.

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  • Set design for Casanova in Warsaw completed

    Polish National Ballet | Gianni Quaranta has completed set and costume designs for Casanova in Warsaw, Krzysztof Pastor's new ballet to premiere in May 2015.

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  • Pastor’s "THE NUTCRACKER" Staged in Vilnius

    Polish National Ballet | The premiere of the Polish National Ballet director’s version of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre is now behind him. So far, Krzysztof Pastor has designed mostly original ballets; The Nutcracker in Vilnius is his first production of one of…

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  • TO THE CASUALTIES OF THE GREAT WAR

    Polish National Ballet | At the Polish National Ballet’s initiative, on the centenary of the outbreak of World War I the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera pays tribute to the casualties of the Great War.

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  • Polish National Ballet premieres '1914.'

    Polish National Ballet | 2014 marks 100 years since the outbreak of World War I. Commemorating this great tragedy, the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera presents a special ballet triple bill 1914.

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  • Pastor's 'Nutcracker' in Vilnius

    Polish National Ballet | The director of the Polish National Ballet is working on his own choreographic version of The Nutcracker at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.

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  • Joanna Drabik to perform in London

    Polish National Ballet | Our dancer Joanna Drabik has been invited by the Polish Cultural Institute in London to present the final dance from the ballet The Rite of Spring by Vaslav Nijinsky, at the Polish embassy in London.

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  • Teatr Wielki with a new music director

    Polish National Opera | As of the 2014/15 season, Andryi Yurkevich is Music Director of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera.

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  • Treliński's 'Salome' opens in Prague

    Polish National Opera | On 23 October 2014 Prague will see the premiere of Salome by Richard Strauss directed by Mariusz Treliński and co-produced by the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera and Národní divadlo, the National Theatre in Prague.

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  • Bondara's double bill at Wrocław Opera

    Polish National Ballet | Robert Bondara has staged two new choreographies, this time with the Wrocław Opera Ballet.

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  • 'The Merchant of Venice' opens the 2014/15 season

    Polish National Opera | André Tchaikovsky's opera The Merchant of Venice will premiere on 24 October 2014 at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, thus launching the opera house's new season.

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  • La folle journée de Varsovie

    Cooperation | The festival’s fifth edition (26-28 September 2014) will be devoted to 20th-century American music. It will feature works by American composers and pieces that European composers wrote as émigrés.

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