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  • Happy Birthday to Teresa Żylis-Gara

    News Polish National Opera | Bewitching, immpecable, spellbinding! Teresa Żylis-Gara dazzled both concert-goers and opera lovers around the world with the spellbinding timbre and dramatic capabilities of her lyric soprano.

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  • All events cancelled until 31 January

    News Polish National Opera | The opera house will remain closed until 31 January.

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  • We go on, waiting to meet you again

    News Polish National Opera | General manager of the Polish National Opera, Waldemar Dąbrowski, reflects on the challenges of 2020.

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  • New Year's Eve Gala with Mozart and Rossini

    News Polish National Opera | Start the New Year on a high note.

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  • The Beautiful and the talented, or the New Year's Gala

    News Polish National Ballet | The past few months have been very difficult for ballet. Time running out in their stage careers, irregular work and lack of interaction with a live audience left dancers gasping for fresh air. What will the New Year bring?

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  • All events cancelled until 17 January

    News Polish National Opera | The opera house will not reopen in January 2021.

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  • The great Onegin

    News Polish National Opera | Watch Tchaikovsky's masterpiece in Mariusz Treliński's extraordinary staging sung by an excellent lineup of soloists on 19 December 2020 at 7 p.m. on vod.teatrwielki.pl.

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  • Christmas cheer online

    News | With Christmas just around the corner, we have put together an online programme to brighten your festive season. Watch on vod.teatrwielki.pl for free.

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  • Tickets to January shows go on sale

    News Polish National Opera | The Box Office and Boutique to reopen on 7 December.

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  • All events cancelled until 29 December

    News Polish National Opera | In line with the government’s new Covid-19 guidelines, the Polish National Opera cancels all events until 29 December.

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  • Gabriel Chmura has died

    News Polish National Opera | Prominent conductor, artistic director of the Poznań Opera House, former music director of a number of opera houses and orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic, and frequent guest of the Polish National Opera, Gabriel Chmura has died aged 74.

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  • Reconstruction: 55 Years After

    News Polish National Opera | The Polish National Opera is launching a week of virtual celebrations marking fifty-five years since the Warsaw opera house reopened after postwar reconstruction.

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  • CASANOVA ONLINE

    News Polish National Ballet | As we await our audience's return to our house, the Polish National Ballet will revisit some of its past productions online. To start off, we are going to treat you to a recording of Krzysztof Pastor's spectacular Casanova in Warsaw.

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  • Tosca cancelled

    News Polish National Opera | Unfortunately, we are forced to cancel the upcoming performance of Tosca on 5, 6, 7 and 8 November.

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  • Exceptional, adored, unforgettable…

    News Polish National Ballet | An icon of Polish ballet, Ewa Głowacka died suddenly on 19 October 2020. Endowed with an exceptional talent, she was the brightest star of the Teatr Wielki’s ballet company of the past fifty years.

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  • Performances of The Lady of the Camellias cancelled

    News Polish National Ballet | We have made the difficult decision to cancel the upcoming performances of The Lady of the Camellias on 25, 27, 28, 29 and 30 October 2020.

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  • Conducting is much unlike a hotel stay

    News Polish National Opera | The music director of the Polish National Opera, Patrick Fournillier talks about French music and the combination of discipline and imagination possessed by Poles.

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  • Tickets to The Lady of the Camellias temporarily unavailable

    News Polish National Ballet | Due to our seating capacty being limited to 25% at the moment, the sale of tickets for the remaining five performances of The Lady of the Camellias has been put on hold.

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  • Sale of 2021 tickets on hold

    News Polish National Opera | The sale of tickets for events scheduled from 1 January 2021 onwards has been put on hold.

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  • Our operations under Covid-19 ‘red zone’ restrictions

    News Polish National Opera | New rules applying to indoor cultural events following the introduction of tougher Covid-19 restrictions across Poland.

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