Fat Thursday / The Night Bell
Gaetano Donizetti
Fat Thursday / Il Giovedì Grasso
The Night Bell / Il Campanello di notte
Libretto
Domenico Gilardoni: Fat Thursday, Gaetano Donizetti: The Night Bell
Premiere | 20th October 2021
Music director
Kuba Wnuk
Director and staging
Grzegorz Chrapkiewicz
Set designer
Wojciech Stefaniak
Costumes
Katarzyna Szczurowska, Anna Skupień
Choreography
Jarosław Staniek, Katarzyna Zielonka
Karolina Gębska
Jakub Psuja
Fat Thursday
CAST:
Il Colonello: Daniel Kotliński / Tomasz Kumięga
Nina: Anna Farysej / Joanna Radziszewska-Sojka
Camilla: Elżbieta Wróblewska / Wanda Franek
Sigismondo: Łukasz Klimczak / Michał Janicki
Teodoro: Łukasz Ratajczak / Sebastian Mach
Stefanina: Aleksandra Borkiewicz
Ernesto Rousignacco: Pavlo Tolstoy / Aleksander Kunach
Cola: Michał Romanowski / Karol Skwara
Dancers:
Anna Pacocha, Kasia Gocał, Ewelina Kruk, Paulina Gajewska, Patryk Rybarski, Santi Bello, Arkadiusz Jarosz, Marek Bratkowski
Period Instrument Orchestra of the Warszawska Opera Kameralna
Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense
Pianoforte
Natalya Gaponenko / Aleksander Teliga
Only the atmosphere of the ending carnival explains the misdeeds done by the characters of this crazy comedy, which is “Fat Thursday”. Nina loves Teodoro. But her father wants to marry her off to Ernesto – a quite nice and, as it turns out, smart boy. The young couple, together with a group of friends, plot a conspiracy against Ernesto. However, he pays them in their own coin – he also has his own plan. Who will win and marry Nina?
The Night Bell
CAST:
Don Annibale Pistacchio: Daniel Kotliński / Tomasz Kumięga
Serafina: Anna Farysej / Joanna Radziszewska-Sojka
Madama Rosa: Elżbieta Wróblewska / Wanda Franek
Enrico: Łukasz Klimczak / Michał Janicki
Spiridione: Jacek Ornafa / Łukasz Wroński
Vocal Ensemble of the Warszawska Opera Kameralna
Chorus Master – Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz
Period Instrument Orchestra of the Warszawska Opera Kameralna
Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense
Pianoforte
Natalya Gaponenko / Aleksander Teliga
Music Director
Kuba Wnuk
“The Night Bell” tells the story of a rejected lover who becomes an intrusive stalker. He will do everything so that the one he loves does not spend the wedding night with her husband. As soon as the young couple is about to close the bedroom door, the doorbell rings in the house. And it does so several times until morning. An operatic farce about a cunning stalker who has plotted a hilarious revenge.
