Breathing in spring

  After the hardships of a long winter, we longed to get out of town to breathe in* (is that like "breathing in smoke"?) the spring air. We traditionally chose Dziwnów for an extended weekend in April. As usual,  we are staying at the West Pomeranian University of Technology (ZUT) summer center wh...

April Fools' Day at the palace?

  It wasn't April Fool's Day! RANGE ROVER invited their loyal customers and friends who support this car brand for brunch at Rajkowo Palace. Our friend Łukasz had several invitations and suggested we attend one of such events again. Last year, we had been with him at Manowce Palace. Unfortunat...

Emotions and morality drama on the ballet stage

  The Szczecin Castle Opera has maintained a very high artistic standard for several years now, and each production brings a wealth of emotions to the audience, evoking enthusiastic reviews and ensuring a 100% audience turnout. Many titles are part of the regular repertoire, and some return to the...

Żeromski on pointe in Szczecin?

  On the weekend of March 21 and 22, the ballet performance "History of Sin" by Karol Urbański returns to the stage of the Castle Opera in Szczecin (premiere in 2014!) – a story about extreme human emotions inspired by the famous novel by S. Żeromski and the scandalous film by W. Borowczyk. ...

Chopin in Szczecin

In September 2025, the Philharmonic announced ticket sales for the entire 2025/26 season. We had already purchased tickets for the recitals of the future laureates of the 19th Chopin Competition. For November 2025 and March 2026! On November 14th, I wrote here about the concert by Kevin Chen, winn...

Don Quixote in Szczecin

We sometimes travel in Poland and to other European countries to see opera and ballet performances, but we don't forget about what's happening here in Szczecin! Classical ballet at the Castle Opera in Szczecin? This open-ended question haunted me until the opening of "Don Quixote,"* which premiered...

Puccini in Berlin

Giacomo Puccini created operas that can be seen again and again, and the arias from these masterpieces constitute a canon of world music. It's true that this is a cliché, a trendy word these days (incorrectly translated as "cliché"). But when this opera is performed at the Staadsoper Unter der L...

Mysterious GEM

At the end of ourstay, I'll make the most important entry. We visited the GEM (The Grand Egyptian Museum) on our second day, but there was too much going on and there wasn't enough time to describe the Grand Egyptian Museum. "The Grand Egyptian Museum – a museum located in Giza, on a plateau betwe...
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