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 / conductor
Kuba Wnuk
Director and staging
Grzegorz Chrapkiewicz
Wojciech Stefaniak
Katarzyna Szczurowska, Anna Skupień
Jarosław Staniek, Katarzyna Zielonka
Piotr Pawlik
Fat Thursday
CAST:
Il Colonello: Tomasz Kumięga
Nina: Joanna Radziszewska
Camilla: Elżbieta Wróblewska
Sigismondo: Łukasz Klimczak
Teodoro: Łukasz Ratajczak
Stefanina: Paulina Tuzińska
Ernesto Rousignacco: Aleksander Kunach
Cola: Karol Skwara
Dancers
Sara Kaźmierska, Kasia Gocał, Ewelina Kruk, Paulina Gajewska, Katarzyna Reisch-Jakubczak,
Patryk Rybarski, Arkadiusz Jarosz, Marek Bratkowski
Period Instruments Orchestra of the Warszawska Opera Kameralna
Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense
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: Tomasz Kumięga
Serafina: Joanna Radziszewska
Madama Rosa: Elżbieta Wróblewska
Enrico: Łukasz Klimczak
Spiridione: Jacek Ornafa
Vocal Ensemble of the Warszawska Opera Kameralna
Chorus Master – Krzysztof Kusiel-Moroz
Period Instruments Orchestra of the Warszawska Opera Kameralna
Musicae Antiquae Collegium Varsoviense
“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.
