A song gala under the meaningful title “Great Polish Composers In Song” will take place on March 10, 2018 (6:30 p.m.) at the Polish Aviation Museum in Cracow. We will hear masterpieces of vocal lyrical music in symphonic arrangements.

The evening’s programme will comprise outstanding works for voice and symphony orchestra by some of the most acclaimed composers of Polish music of the 20th and 21st century. The event’s rich repertoire includes Chantefleurs et chantefables by Witold Lutosławski for soprano and orchestra, Tadeusz Baird’s Four Love Sonnets to texts by William Shakespeare for baritone and orchestra, Abschied from Symphony No. 8 “Songs of Transience” by Krzysztof Penderecki, and Henryk Mikołaj Górecki's Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. The audience will hear Krakow Opera’s brilliant soloists: Monika Korybalska, Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha, Adam Szerszeń, and the Orchestra of the Krakow Opera conducted by Tomasz Tokarczyk.

The concert is a part of the “Song –The Theatre of the Word” series, initiated by the Krakow Opera in December 2016 as a cycle of encounters with poetry and music. There is no doubt that this art project, with its theatrical formula, selection of music pieces, and venues, is wholly unprecedented among the repertoires of philharmonics and music theatres in Poland.

More information at: www.opera.krakow.pl