Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.
22nd Festival ‘Maria Fołtyn Kaleidoscope of Music Forms’ which will be held on September 9–24, 2022, is dedicated to the patron of the festival on the 10th anniversary of her death.
The festival is a multi-year project referring to the pre – war music traditions of Sopot, concerning classical music presentations. Due to its interesting and unconventional setting, to the performances of eminent artists the festival is highly appreciated by the critics, the Tri-City audience and guests, from Poland and from abroad.
The festival has become a permanent part of Culture Map of Poland and Europe and one of the summer, tourist showcases of Pomerania presenting music from the Baroque period till modern times. This year it will host artists such as Dariusz Wójcik, Edyta Piasecka, Magdalena Cornelius-Kulig, Maciej Zimka, Duo Fortecello.
The Patroness of the festival is Maria Fołtyn – a legend of Polish vocal art, a great populariser of Stanisław Moniuszko’s creative output all over the world.
The current year brings the 10th anniversary of her death. It is also the year of the 150th anniversary of the death of Stanisław Moniuszko, In view of those two anniversaries, the organizers have decided that the final performance of the festival will be the presentation of the concert version of Stanisław Moniuszko’s opera ‘The Countess’. It was Maria Fołtyn’s last realization presented in the semi-stage version in Studio S1 of the Polish Radio in Warsaw.
Ticket booking: tel. 600 290 214.
Co-financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the ‘Music’ programme, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance. Realized with the financial participation of the Sopot City Commune.
Detailed programme: www.teatrotwarty.pl
