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Polish Day at The Met

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John Beauchamp 26.01.2015 11:41
Polish director Mariusz Treliński makes his debut on Monday at The Metropolitan Opera in New York with a double bill consisting of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Iolanta’ and Bartok’s ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’.
Anna Netrebko (centre) stars as Iolanta, the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky's opera. Photo courtesy: Marty Sohl/Met Opera
Anna Netrebko (centre) stars as Iolanta, the blind princess of the title in Tchaikovsky's opera. Photo courtesy: Marty Sohl/Met Opera

Treliński is the first Polish director to be invited by the Metropolitan and the performance is the first ever co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and the National Opera of Warsaw, where the ‘Iolanta’/ ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’ diptych was first presented in December 2013.

Fifty-two year-old Treliński started his career as a filmmaker, graduating from the prestigious film school in Łodź. He has served as Artistic Director of the National Opera since 2008 and has developed a fine international career, which has included ‘Madama Butterfly’ in Washington and ‘Don Giovanni’ in Los Angeles.

Treliński told the Polish Press Agency that Monday’s premiere is “the crowning of the great artistic and technological revolution which has been taking place at the National Opera in Warsaw for more than a decade.”

“It opened the company to modern aesthetic trends, attracting young audiences and co-production offers from Petersburg, Brussels, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires and the Met,” he added.

In ‘Iolanta’, Anna Netrebko’s partner on the stage is the Polish tenor Piotr Beczała.
Setting for the scene for the premiere, in which Treliński was inspired by classic ‘noir’ films of the 1940s, the New York Times wrote: “This production promises to be one of the most viscerally unsettling shows on offer this season.”

On 14 February, the production will be broadcast to cinemas and theatres around the world in ‘The Met: Live in HD’ series. (mk/jb)

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