Students of the Grażyna and Kiejstut Academy of Music in Łódź under the baton of Marcin Wolniewski will perform Carl Maria von Weber’s comic opera Abu Hassan on March 5, 2016. The work will be staged in Poland for the 1st time.

Abu Hassan is a German singspiel in one act, composed in 1811. The libretto, written by Franz Carl Hiemer, is based on a tale of the One Thousand and One Nights. The subject of this comic work concerns a debtor, Abu Hassan, and his wife Fatime, who make effort to fake their own death and outsmart the Caliph so that the money gained for their funerals would allow them to pay their debts and live in ease.

The opera will be examined in details during the conference OM: Orient in Music – Music of the Orient, which will take place on March 9-12, 2016 at the Academy of Music in Łódź.

Next performances will be held on March 6-9, 2016.

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.