3rd Mozart Junior Festival in Warsaw
Theatre of Warsaw Chamber Opera
Wolfgang Amadeusz Mozart
Oriental Adventure
Spectacle in Polish for children based on the opera „The Abduction from the Seraglio” by W. A. Mozart
Director: Jitka Stokalska
Revival: Grzegorz Boniecki
Set designer: Paweł Dobrzycki
Music director : Kuba Wnuk
CAST:
Konstanze – Sylwia Krzysiek
Belmonte – Aleksander Kunach
Pedrillo – Bartosz Nowak
Blonde – Aleksandra Żakiewicz
Osmin – Dariusz Górski
Selim – Piotr Pieron
Narrator:
Maciej Miecznikowski
Pantomime:
Mariusz Karpiński, Bartłomiej Marszałek
Vocal Ensemble:
Karolina Geryń – soprano
Ewa Puchalska – alto
Tomasz Grygo – tenor
Grzegorz Zychowicz – bass
Instrumental Ensemble:
Sławomir Talacha – violin
Marta Ziarko – cello
Jarosław Kopeć – percussion
Kuba Wnuk – piano
A performance based on one of the most famous stage works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The story takes place at the Turkish court of the mighty Bassa Selim, where a Spanish nobleman, Belmonte, comes to find his fiancée, Konstanze, kidnapped by pirates. Servants Blonde and Pedrillo also take part in the escape, and they primary task is to defeat Osmin – a dangerous guardian of the Seraglio.
Mozart’s set design, costumes and music are filled with a colourful Orient, especially the Turkish culture, which was popular back then in Vienna, where the composer lived. Mozart, like the Viennese, enjoyed the Turkish market and goods from Turkey: coffee, dried fruit, clothes; and in music he liked to stylize Turkish music, as in the famous A Turkish March from the piano sonata. Perhaps that is why one of the characters of his other “oriental” opera said: not only Europe, but also Asia can bring noble souls.