Star line up for La Folle Journee
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
18.09.2014 14:29
American music is the theme of La Folle Journee, the world’s biggest classical music festival, which opens in Warsaw on 26 September.
A total of fifty concerts of music by George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Philip Glass will be given during the three-day event in the four venues of Warsaw’s National Opera (named Manhattan, Hollywood, Harlem, and The Wild West) and and in a huge tent erected in front of the opera house.
The programme includes symphonic and popular music as well as jazz and hits from the best known musicals and features ensembles including Sinfonia Varsonia, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Gordon Goodwyn Trio and the Crossroards Quartet from the United States.
It will be the fifth Polish edition of La Folle Journée which was launched by the Frenchman Rene Martin in Nantes in 1995 and has since moved to several other venues in France as well as to Madrid, Bilbao, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo.
In line with the festival's formula, the concerts last about 50 minutes and the audience are able to ‘shop around’ the various venues.
The most expensive tickets cost 12 zlotys (an equivalent of 3 euros). The previous four editions of the event attracted an audience of over 130, 000. (mk/pg)