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660 artists from 37 countries at the Ruhrtriennale 2024

15.04.2024

The Ruhrtriennale 2024 is to be a festival for everyone! To this end, artistic director Ivo Van Hove has put together a varied and diverse programme – from rock and pop music theatre with music by PJ Harvey to an immersive music theatre installation with Chorwerk Ruhr and a slapstick operetta musical by Herbert Fritsch and Herbert Grönemeyer. Find the entire programme now online at www.ruhrtriennale.de

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Why theatre for young audiences is one of Poland’s cultural and social treasures?

22.03.2024

This may surprise many, but Polish theatre for young audiences is one of the richest and the best in Europe. This is not only about the quantity and diversity of the theatre-related events in Poland. It is also about leading playwrights writing for children, special programmes developing dramaturgy for young spectators, long traditions of youth theatre, theatre productions that are aesthetically and politically relevant, and festivals that celebrate children and their theatre. Above all, the quality of Polish theatre for young audiences is underpinned by its progressive engagement with young spectators as creative partners and socio-cultural-political agents – writes Kasia Lech.

A Lexicon of the Central-Eastern European Interwar Theatre Avant-garde

21.03.2024

A Lexicon of the Central-Eastern European Interwar Theatre Avant-garde presents different aspects of the theatre avant-garde programmes, projects and achievements that took place between the two World Wars in a region of Europe that, squeezed between the two mighty powers of Germany and Russia, experienced similar historical dangers of marginalization and (in many cases literal) colonization and conquest. To order a book, please write to: ksiegarnia@instytut-teatralny.pl or just visit the Prospero Bookstore at Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw.

Must see/take part in

MET production again in Polish cinemas

16.04.2024

The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD returns to cinemas on April 20 with the screening of Puccini’s ”La Rondine” (”The Swallow”). The three-act opera, written in 1917, premiered on the New York stage on March 10, 1928. For 96 years, it has only been performed a total of 33 times at the Met where it was last shown in 2013. The live broadcast will be a rare opportunity to see one of Puccini’s lesser-known works with a sterling cast

Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies by Luk Perceval

15.04.2024

ROM stands for Rome and is a free adaptation/compilation of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies – including Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra. Plays renowned for their exploration of power and betrayal, set against the backdrop of the fall of the Roman Empire.Premiere on 20 April at Volkstheater Vienna.

Polish Artist Abroad

Polish artists working at Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich

16.04.2024

The Munich Opera has continuously collaborated with Polish artists for many years. Krzysztof Warlikowski directs Janáček’s “Káťa Kabanová”. This year in August, the Salzburg Festival will host the premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Idiot” directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski. The musical director of the show is Lithuanian conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla. The cast features Jerzy Butryn.

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Siegfried in Bern

10.04.2024

On 14 April, the Bern Opera (Bühnen Bern) will stage the premiere of"Siegfried" ("Siegfried") directed by Ewelina Marciniak - the third part of the of Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung" tetralogy.

Special for Ukrainian Viewers

The musical world premiere "Chararkov! Charkov!"

20.03.2024

This is the world premiere performance of Serhiy Zhadan's play, translated by Adam Pomorski. The text was commissioned by the Polish Theatre in Warsaw. The play, in musical form, tells a story inspired by the fate of the avant-garde theatre Berezil and its creator - director-reformer Łeś Kurbas, who was active in Kharkov in the years 1925-1933. PREMIERE March 22, 2024, Slawomir Mrożek Chamber Stage.

Quasi-declarative opera

19.02.2024

On the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute, makes its stage available to artists who, sharing the refugee fate of hundreds of thousands of their compatriots, continue to co-create Ukrainian culture.