Premiere of Katarzyna Brochocka's opera "To Heaven"

O.to.ja Foundation invites you to the premiere of Katarzyna Brochocka's opera Do nieba [To Heaven]. Thanks to the support of Radio dla Ciebie, the concert premiere will take place on 30 September 2020 at 9.00 p.m. at the Agnieszka Osiecka Music Studio of Polish Radio and will be broadcast live on the Internet so that everyone will be able to participate in the event.

To Heaven is a chamber opera based on a play by Robert Lewandowski entitled Noe. There are five soloists (soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone, bass), two pianists and two percussionists. The group of performers will include excellent singers and instrumentalists, as well as the composer herself. Although the opera was written in 2016, the current situation in the world paralyzed by COVID-19 seems to be analogous to that in which the characters of the drama are found. Sudden isolation, confusion, an unpredictable future and the collapse of the current system of values ​​force a redefinition of the present paradigm, perception of oneself and reality. The drama is set in a department store, and the characters represent contemporary social types: a corporate employee, owner of a small business, a pensioner looking for promotions, a 30-year-old man addicted to computer games and a teenager preoccupied with her beauty. How to survive and remain calm and human in the new world? Katarzyna Brochocka's opera serves as a koan here, a story that provokes "great doubt" ...

The premiere will be performed by: Aleksandra Klimczak (soprano), Małgorzata Bartkowska (mezzo-soprano), Zbigniew Malak (tenor), Tomasz Rak (baritone), Tomasz Raff (bass-baritone), Katarzyna Brochocka and Mischa Kozłowski (piano), Michał Niedziałek and Olga He arrived (percussion instruments).

The project was financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the "Culture on the Web" grant programme.

Live broadcast from the Agnieszka Osiecka Music Studio of Polish Radio at:

• o.to.ja Foundation YouTube channel http://bit.ly/doniebani 
• o.to.ja Foundation Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/o.to.jaFundacja/