Some go to Rome to see the Pope, others to Paris to watch a show at Folie Bergère.
We are here, among other reasons, to support Polish artists who are successful abroad.
Today we are going to be at the National Opera to see a performance "A Quiet Place".
After Gazeta Wyborcza (Anna S. Dębowska):
“Paris is delighted with the Polish director. This opera was the composer's coming out (Bernstein’s).
Krzysztof Warlikowski created an intimate and beautiful performance at the Paris Opera with different faces of the desire for love. It cannot be suppressed. Both the "legal" and the "cursed" - directed at a person of the same sex. Bernstein's "A Quiet Place" is a family drama that brings purification. Wyborcza".
Krzysztof Warlikowski, who has been directing at the Paris Opera since 2006, did not always have a standing ovation there. It happened that his performances evoked extreme emotions and divided the audience. The premiere of Leonard Bernstein's opera "A Quiet Place" was very well received. The audience applauded with equal appreciation the soloists, conductor Kent Nagano, Krzysztof Warlikowski and his team, and the libretto author Stephen Wadsworth.
The great absentee was the composer Leonard Bernstein, who died in 1990. The Paris premiere of "A Quiet Place", initiated by his student Kent Nagano, was in a way a tribute to Bernstein's genius as a composer. He became famous primarily as a conductor and brilliant popularizer of music, but also the author of hit musicals such as "West Side Story", "Candide" or "On the Town".
The opera "A Quiet Place", on the other hand, belongs to the "serious" current in Bernstein's oeuvre (Symphony No. 2 "The Age of Anxiety", Symphony No. 3 "Kaddish"). It was an attempt by the composer to come out - one of the main characters, Junior, is his alter ego. It is a deeply personal work of the famous musician, referring to his complicated family situation and hidden homosexuality. "
We will entry our review here tomorrow, after having seen the opera. We expect great emotions ...
The photo is from the internet:
I will post our photos and review tomorrow, because today we are tired ...
