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
Grzegorz Chrapkiewicz
Kuba Wnuk
Set designer
Wojciech Stefaniak
Katarzyna Szczurowska, Anna Skupień
Jarosław Staniek, Katarzyna Zielonka
Piotr Pawlik
Jakub Psuja
Jacek Ornafa
Arkadiusz Jarosz
Maria Grąbkowska
Fat Thursday
CAST:
Il Colonello: Dawid Biwo
Nina: Anna Farysej
Camilla: Elżbieta Wróblewska
Sigismondo: Łukasz Klimczak
Teodoro: Łukasz Ratajczak
Stefanina: Aleksandra Borkiewicz-Cłapińska
Ernesto Rousignacco: Pavlo Tolstoy
Cola: Karol Skwara
Dancers
Anna Pacocha, Kasia Gocał, Ewelina Kruk, Paulina Gajewska, Patryk Rybarski, Santi Bello, Arkadiusz Jarosz, Marek Bratkowski
ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS ENSEMBLE OF WARSAW CHAMBER OPERA
Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense
Music Director
Kuba Wnuk
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 its own plan. Who will win and marry Nina?
The Night Bell
CAST:
Don Annibale Pistacchio: Dawid Biwo
Serafina: Anna Farysej
Madama Rosa: Elżbieta Wróblewska
Enrico: Łukasz Klimczak
Spiridione: Jacek Ornafa
VOCAL ENSEMBLE OF WARSAW CHAMBER OPERA
Chorus Master – Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz
ANCIENT INSTRUMENTS ENSEMBLE OF WARSAW CHAMBER OPERA
Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense
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.
