The excerpts of the opera The Man from Manufaktura will be presented for the first time on January 5, 2017 at the Grand Theatre in Łódź.

The concert is one of the stages of the Opera Composition Competition (subject: 2-hour opera The Man from Manufactura to the libtretto by Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk), which gathered 40 applications from composers all over the world. By December 20, the jury will select 3 finalists who will be invited to prepare the public performance of the opera’s fragments scheduled for January. The fragments will be performed by soloists (special guest of the evening will be mezzosoprano Małgorzata Walewska), mixed choir and orchestra of the Grand Theatre in Łódź under Wojciech Rodek.

The performance will be a subject to the jury's and audience's voting (on-line voting available by January 29, 2017), as a result of which 2 composers will be admitted to the final stage of the competition. The world premiere of the complete work will be held in November 2018 at the Grand Theatre in Łódź.

The performance will be recorded and broadcast on the Internet and in Manufaktura Centre.

Jury members: Krzysztof Penderecki, Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa, Elżbieta Penderecka, Urszula Kryger, Maciej Tworek, and Wojciech Rodek.

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