Professor Leonard Mróz, a great Polish bass singer and a valued educator, died on 13 December 2020. Soon after the first anniversary of this sad event, a concert commemorating the Professor will be held at the Warsaw Philharmonic. The Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra will also participate in this event, which will take place on 22 December 2021 at 7 p.m.

Tribute to the great singer will be paid by four outstanding soloists, each of whom boasts an impressive output in terms of stage performances, concerts and recordings: Rafał Siwek (bass), Aleksander Teliga (bass), Sylwester Kostecki (tenor), Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski (bass-baritone) i Adam Zdunikowski (tenor). They will present an extensive repertoire referring to the artistic emploi of the great artist, including, in the first part, songs by Polish and Russian composers and, in the second part, fragments of the opera he has been associated with most, an impressive fresco from the history of old Russia: Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky.

An important performer at the concert will be the outstanding Choir of the Grand Theatre – National Opera, which will be conducted by the originator of the event, Professor Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, student of Professor Mróz, vocalist with broad symphony and stage experience as the director of the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic, the Wrocław opera and a guest conductor of numerous productions at the Grand Theatre – National Opera as well as other opera stages.

Financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

Piotr Maculewicz

Media patronage: Polish Music Information Centre POLMIC.

Ticket information: https://sinfoniaiuventus.pl/leonard-andrzej-mroz-in-memoriam-fragments-from-modest-mussorgskys-opera-boris-godunov-alongside-polish-and-russian-vocal-lyric/