The Opera Rara festival will take place in Kraków for the eleventh time. As part of the cycle, from January 31 to February 17, 2019, four stage productions will be presented: from Rameau, through Mozart to Glass, as well as vocal recitals by Danielle de Niese, Patricia Petibon and Jakub Józef Orliński.

Opera Rara 2019 Festival will start with Jean-Philippe Rameau's Hyppolite and Aricie staged by Israeli director Sjaron Minailo. The Krakow Festival Orchestra under the baton of Marek Toporowski will perform along with the international cast of soloists. In addition to large stage performances, the programme of the festival includes both Baroque operas as well as experimental stagings and vocal recitals. Among others, A Madrigal Opera by Philip Glass will be presented again.

On February 13 at 7.00 p.m. at the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre, counter-tenor Józef Jakub Orliński will perform a recital. The Polish singer of exceptional voice will juxtapose two musical areas which are usually considered to be totally separate – arias from Baroque operas and Polish songs by Karol Szymanowski, Tadeusz Baird and Paweł Łukaszewski. Seemingly, they have nothing in common – epoch, style, language and so on... What binds them together? You will be able to discover this during the concert in Krakow thanks to Jakub Józef Orliński, pianist Michał Biel and their bold repertoire choices.

Detailed programme available at: http://operarara.pl/program