INTIMATE PORTRAITS – Polish National Opera

Intimate Portraits is a stage fantasy based on the repertoire of German Romantic Lieder by Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann. Through music, evocative descriptions of landscapes, and the paintings by Caspar David Friedrich which serve a backdrop to the performance, worlds - better known through the poetry of Goethe and Schiller - come alive on the stage in Warsaw.

Staged and sung by Opera Academy artists of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera, Intimate Portraits sees lyrical characters emerge from song and their stories take form on stage. The characters traverse Romantic landscapes, seek personal answers to questions about the nature of love, the ways to rebel, and the truth about themselves on the ‘stage of the world’. This multi-sensory exploration of Romantic poetry is complemented by a rich piano repertoire for four hands.

Full performance streamed on OperaVision from 1 April 2024 at 19:00 CET to 1 October 2024 at 12:00 CET: https://operavision.eu/performance/intimate-portraits

CAST

Sopranos
Jiayu Jin
Justyna Khil
Iryna Melnyk
Mariana Poltorak
Sylwia Salamońska
Sylwia Ziółkowska

Tenors
Adam Walasek
Liang Wei

Baritones
Nazar Mykulyak
Szymon Raczkowski

Pianists
Helmut Deutsch
Maciej Pikulski
Tetiana Boilo
Rozalia Kierc
Gabriela Lasota-Cierniak
Marta Misztal
Daria Siemianowska
Matteo Zoli
Piotr Zuchowski

Stage directors
Ilona Molka
Ewa Rucińska

Dramaturgy
Ewa Rucińska

Movements
Ilona Molka

Video
Piotr Majewski

Lighting
Maciej Igielski

Vocal coaches and repetiteurs
Izabela Kłosińska
Olga Pasichnyk
Sophia Muñoz
Michał Biel
Helmut Deutsch
Maciej Pikulski

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