David Pountney to direct Moniuszko’s opera in Warsaw
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
11.06.2015 15:21
‘The Haunted Manor’ by Stanisław Moniuszko, the father of Polish national opera, will be the first premiere of the 2015/16 season at Warsaw’s Grand Opera Theatre.
Warsaw’s Grand Opera Theatre. Photo: wikimedia commons/ Marek and Ewa Wojciechowscy
The production will be directed by David Pountney, the artistic director of the Welsh National Opera in Cardiff.
Addressing a press conference in Warsaw, the artistic director of the Grand Opera Theatre Mariusz Trelinski said that Pountney has particularly good credentials to work on ‘The Haunted Manor’, in view of his many highly interesting encounters with Polish music in recent years.
These have included Mieczysław Weinberg’s ‘The Passenger’ (produced in Warsaw, Houston and New York) and Karol Szymanowski’s ‘King Roger’ (premiered in July 2011 in Warsaw to mark Poland’s presidency in the European Council).
Moniuszko’s ‘The Haunted Manor’ will open on 8 November, 150 years after the work’s premiere in Warsaw on in September 1865. It will inaugurate a video platform on which selected Grand Opera productions will be available on-line.
The programme of the 2015/16 season also includes new productions of Mozart’s ‘La clemenza di Tito’, Richard Strauss’s ‘Salome’ and Wagner’s ‘Tristan and Isolde’. (mk/nh)