Basen Artystyczny Stage
A PERFORMANCE FOR ADULT AUDIENCES
Leszek Możdżer
A Ball at the Opera
Libretto: Julian Tuwim
PREMIERE 26th March 2026
Directed by Agnieszka Płoszajska
Musical direction Leszek Możdżer
Set Design Katarzyna Gabrat-Szymańska
Costume Design Małgorzata Słoniowska
Choreography Santiago Bello
Sound direction Piotr Taraszkiewicz
Lighting direction Adam Tyszka
Multimedia Karolina Jacewicz
Vocal Preparation Paulina Stekla
Assistant Director Jeremiasz Gzyl
Assistant Choreographer Darya Melekh
Accompanist/Vocal Coach Krzysztof Brzeziński
Cast:
Maciej Maciejewski, Jeremiasz Gzyl, Marta Burdynowicz, Joanna Gorzała, Stefan Andruszko, Patryk Bartoszewicz, Agnieszka Tylutki, Katarzyna Domalewska, Łukasz Mazurek, Andrzej Skorupa, Przemysław Niedzielski, Marcin Wortmann, Maciej Tomaszewski, Wojciech Kurcjusz, Karol Ledwosiński, Bartosz Łyczek, Jędrzej Czerwonogrodzki, Łukasz Kamiński, Aleksandra Gotowicka, Monika Łopuszyńska, Klaudia Duda, Katarzyna Jamróz, Alicja Węgorzewska-Whiskerd, Marta Florek. Leszek Możdżer.
Acrobats:
Patryk Rybarski, Anna Czarniecka
Dancers/Acrobats:
Klaudia Duda, Darya Melekh, Angele Villanueva Jara, Mateusz Wróblewski, Dawid Pieróg, Santiago Bello, Karolina Łykowska
Instrumental Ensemble:
Leszek Możdżer – piano, keyboards
Piotr Mania – piano, keyboards
Patryk Stachura – bass guitar
Sebastian Frankiewicz, Paweł Dobrowolski – drums
Something will happen at Basen Artystyczny that defies categorization.
Not a recital. Not a concert. Not a “guest appearance.”
Leszek Możdżer in opera. In a theatrical performance. At the very heart of a living stage organism.
A Ball at the Opera, based on the poem by Julian Tuwim, returns in a new, uncompromising version — as a music-theatre spectacle at the intersection of opera, performance art, and contemporary theatre. A grotesque that amuses — until it stops being funny. An apocalyptic vision of the world beneath a mask of splendor. A ball that continues even as everything trembles.
Leszek Możdżer not only creates the musical layer and leads the instrumental ensemble. He enters the structure of the performance itself. He is present. He reacts. He co-creates the tension between word and sound.
This is a performance for adult audiences.
This is a ball in which the audience becomes a participant.
This is a mirror. Not necessarily a comfortable one.
A Ball at the Opera — Julian Tuwim’s most famous satirical poem — returns in a bold new staging as a music-theatre spectacle at the crossroads of opera, performance, and contemporary theatre. It presents an apocalyptic vision of the world in which grotesque imagery intertwines with a piercing diagnosis of social condition. Written in the 1930s as a sharp satire on the decadence of elites and a premonition of impending catastrophe, the text resonates strikingly today — exposing mechanisms of collective illusion and moral decay concealed beneath a façade of opulence.
The new musical layer is composed by Leszek Możdżer — an artist of boundless imagination and extraordinary sonic sensitivity. His composition and musical direction give the performance a contemporary pulse and dramatic depth, building powerful tension between word and sound.
You are invited to A Ball at the Opera.
Ball attire required.