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WANDA // UNDER THE PRESSURE OF SOUND AND THE WORD
BLU-RAY / 31.03.2023
Wanda
[1] At the castle gate
[2] A chamber in the castle
[3] Camp of the Germanic tribe
[4] A chamber in the castle
[5] In the castle cloisters
[6] A field near Kraków

Documentary film
[7] Under the Pressure of Sound and the Word
Tomasz Konieczny - Bass-baritone
Agata Schmidt - mezzosporano
Paula Maciołek - soprano
The Krakow Opera - CHOIR, CHILDREN’S CHOIR, BALLET, AND ORCHESTRA
Michał Klauza - conductor
ANA 004 AV
WANDA // UNDER THE PRESSURE OF SOUND AND THE WORD
WANDA – video recording of the opera
UNDER THE PRESSURE OF SOUND AND THE WORD – documentary film, dir. Violetta Rotter-Koeyra

This is by no means a piece about the centuries-long Polish-German conflict. It is, instead, a tale of impossible love, of tragic conflict between personal happiness and the common good. Joanna Wnuk-Nazarowa’s opera Wanda is based on a play by Cyprian Kamil Norwid. As a student at secondary music school, Joanna joined a ‘Live Word Club’ run by eminent actress Jadwiga Halina Gallowa (a legendary teacher from Cracow’s Academy of Theatre Arts, now the AST) and played the title role in a production of the play prepared during the Club’s meetings. Today the composer thus symbolically repays Gallowa for the inspiration from her youth. The world premiere, directed by Waldemar Zawodziński, took place at Wawel Royal Castle as part of Norwid’s (Poland’s ‘fourth national bard’s’) birth bicentenary celebrations. The spectacle’s music director was Michał Klauza, who conducted the Cracow Opera Orchestra, Choir, Children’s Choir, and Ballet. The solo parts were sung by Agata Schmidt (Wanda), Tomasz Konieczny (Castellan), Andrzej Lampert (Rüdiger / Skald), and Paula Maciołek (Maid).
Wanda
[1] At the castle gate
[2] A chamber in the castle
[3] Camp of the Germanic tribe
[4] A chamber in the castle
[5] In the castle cloisters
[6] A field near Kraków

Documentary film
[7] Under the Pressure of Sound and the Word
Tomasz Konieczny - Bass-baritone
Agata Schmidt - mezzosporano
Paula Maciołek - soprano
The Krakow Opera - CHOIR, CHILDREN’S CHOIR, BALLET, AND ORCHESTRA
Michał Klauza - conductor
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