Name: Halka
Start: 2023-11-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Real

Organization

Conductor

Łukasz Borowicz

Chorus master

José Luis Basso

Singer

Bass

Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev

Stolnik

Tomasz Kumiega

Dziemba

Baritone

Tomasz Konieczny

Janusz

Soprano

Olga Syniakova

Zofia

Tenor

Piotr Beczała

Jontek

Corinne Winters

Halka

Spoken

Javier Povedano

A piper

Teatro Real de Madrid

Others

Coro Intermezzo

Orchestra

Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid

Madrid

Spain

Teatro Real

Sala Principal

Public

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Una ópera romántica polaca que, junto con la figura y producción de Chopin, supone uno de los hitos en la historia musical del país y que llega al Real con la voz del polaco Piotr Beczała. Considerada un tesoro nacional, sus melodías cantadas tienen sus raíces en la tradición polaca. Cada vez que se representa esta ópera en Polonia, adquiere el tinte de acontecimiento nacional.  

La calidad artística y su gran estructura crean un ágil pulso dramático dentro de sus cuatro actos ayuda a relacionar sus elementos musicales con el personaje de Halka.  

La ópera nacional polaca por excelencia sorprenderá a más de uno por lo aquilatado de su lenguaje dramático y musical, cualidades imprescindibles para llevar a buen puerto la temática universal —el repudio de la madre con hijos ilegítimos— que conocemos en toda su crudeza a través del mito de Medea pero que Moniuszko aproxima, con más de medio siglo de antelación, al universo realista y compasivo de Jenůfa. 

Ópera «nacional» —aunque no «nacionalista» en el sentido lato del término—, Halka ocupa en su país la posición seminal que ocuparon El cazador furtivo en Alemania, La vida por el zar en Rusia, Hunyadi László en Hungría o La novia vendida en República Checa. Escrita cuando Polonia vivía bajo el yugo ruso, Moniuszko se elevó gracias a ella como el héroe musical —con permiso de Chopin— de una tierra oprimida. Su protagonista —la campesina Halka— adquiere su trágica estatura gracias a su explícita identificación con el pueblo polaco —conseguida mediante la inflexión popular de su canto— y por las conmovedoras imágenes con las que enmarcaron su frágil figura el libretista y el compositor de esta obra imprescindible del Romanticismo centroeuropeo.

Estrenada esta versión en el Teatr Wielki de Varsovia el 1 de enero de 1858

Con la colaboración de Instytut Adama Mickiewicza

español

A Polish romantic opera which, together with the figure and production of Chopin, is one of the milestones in the country's musical history and which comes to the Real with the voice of the Polish Piotr Beczala. Considered a national treasure, its sung melodies are rooted in Polish tradition. Every time this opera is performed in Poland, it takes on the tinge of a national event.  

The artistic quality and its great structure create an agile dramatic pulse within its four acts, which helps to relate its musical elements to the character of Halka.

The national Polish opera without rival will raise eyebrows for the quality of its dramatic and musical language, indispensable characteristics to successfully describe the universal theme— a mother’s rejection of her illegitimate children — which is familiar to us, in all its crudity, in the myth of Medea. Moniuszko, however, approached this rawness more than half a century before the realistic and compassionate universe of Jenufa.  

A” national” opera — although not “nationalist” in the broad sense of the term—, Halka occupies a seminal place in its country as did Der Freischütz in Germany, A Life for the Tsar in Russia, Hunyadi László in Hungary, or The Bartered Bride in the Czech Republic. Composed at the time Poland was under Russian control, Moniuszko gained fame as the musical hero — with the permission of Chopin— of an oppressed land. Its protagonist, the peasant girl Halka, acquires a tragic status as she identifies explicitly with the Polish people, by way of the folkloric inflections of her part. With the touching image of her fragile persona by the librettist and composer, this is an essential work of Central European Romanticism.   

Premiere at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw on 1 January 1858.

In collaboration with Instytut Adama Mickiewicza.

English

Halka by Moniuszko, Ó (2023/2023), Seoltóir Łukasz Borowicz, Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid