{"id":7786,"date":"2023-02-22T17:51:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2023-02-22T17:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:52:33","slug":"piotr-beczala-in-lohengrin-at-the-met-opera-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/02\/22\/piotr-beczala-in-lohengrin-at-the-met-opera-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Piotr Becza\u0142a in Lohengrin at The Met Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>February 26-April 1, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metopera.org\/season\/2022-23-season\/lohengrin\/?gclid=CjwKCAiAl9efBhAkEiwA4TorisqyApcXMc21csiw81IwS6rctwEflB2DRfP4Cz3-js_SNtMlfDAurRoCFWwQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\">The Metropolitan Opera<\/a><\/strong><br>30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is recommended by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Wagner\u2019s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of&nbsp;<em>Parsifal<\/em>, director Fran\u00e7ois Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner\u2019s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin on the podium to conduct a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Becza\u0142a in the title role of the mysterious swan knight. Sopranos Tamara Wilson and Elena Stikhina, as the virtuous duchess Elsa, falsely accused of murder, go head-to-head with soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud, who seeks to lay her low. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud\u2019s power-hungry husband, Telramund, and bass G\u00fcnther Groissb\u00f6ck is King Heinrich.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metopera.org\/season\/2022-23-programs\/lohengrin\/\">Read Program<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Production a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III, Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa, and John and Carole French, with additional support from the William O. and Carole P. Bailey Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-11.46.22-AM-1024x248.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7787\" width=\"644\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-11.46.22-AM-1024x248.png 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-11.46.22-AM-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-11.46.22-AM-768x186.png 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-11.46.22-AM-1536x372.png 1536w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/Screen-Shot-2023-02-22-at-11.46.22-AM.png 1678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Richard Wagner<\/strong> (1813\u201383) was the complex, controversial creator of music-drama masterpieces that stand at the center of today\u2019s operatic repertory. Born in Leipzig, he was an artistic revolutionary who reimagined every supposition about music and theater. The composer wrote his own libretto for&nbsp;<em>Lohengrin<\/em>, as he did for all his operas, based on a medieval legend recounted in several places, most notably for Wagner\u2019s purposes in the romance&nbsp;<em>Parzival<\/em>&nbsp;by Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1160\u20131220).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/beczala-piotr-by-johannes-ifkovits-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7789\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/beczala-piotr-by-johannes-ifkovits-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/beczala-piotr-by-johannes-ifkovits-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/beczala-piotr-by-johannes-ifkovits-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/beczala-piotr-by-johannes-ifkovits-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/beczala-piotr-by-johannes-ifkovits.jpg 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><figcaption>Piotr Becza\u0142a, Tenor<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Setting<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wagner set his opera in Antwerp, now in Belgium, around the year 930. The specificity of time and place is key to the tale: a castle (parts of which still exist) on an important river (the Scheldt) on the borderlands of the emerging German nation and at the edge of Christianized Europe\u2014with pockets of paganism still thriving at that time directly to the north. In his new production this season, director Fran\u00e7ois Girard places the opera\u2019s action in an abstract setting that is simultaneously contemporary and fantastical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Music<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The score of&nbsp;<em>Lohengrin<\/em>&nbsp;is a supreme achievement in Romanticism: All the diverse, sometimes extreme expressions of the genre are magnificently and coherently presented. It includes Wagner\u2019s most ethereal music for both the orchestra and voice, and the choral writing is unsurpassed anywhere, expressing human hopes and fears as effectively as it reflects the dawning of a community consciousness. For decades,&nbsp;<em>Lohengrin<\/em>&nbsp;remained Wagner\u2019s most performed opera and was regarded as a sort of \u201cgateway\u201d to his entire corpus of works. 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In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director Fran\u00e7ois Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner\u2019s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin on the podium to conduct a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Becza\u0142a in the title role of the mysterious swan knight. Sopranos Tamara Wilson and Elena Stikhina, as the virtuous duchess Elsa, falsely accused of murder, go head-to-head with soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud, who seeks to lay her low. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud\u2019s power-hungry husband, Telramund, and bass G\u00fcnther Groissb\u00f6ck is King Heinrich.\nRead Program\nProduction a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III, Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa, and John and Carole French, with additional support from the William O. and Carole P. Bailey Family Foundation\nRichard Wagner (1813\u201383) was the complex, controversial creator of music-drama masterpieces that stand at the center of today\u2019s operatic repertory. Born in Leipzig, he was an artistic revolutionary who reimagined every supposition about music and theater. The composer wrote his own libretto for Lohengrin, as he did for all his operas, based on a medieval legend recounted in several places, most notably for Wagner\u2019s purposes in the romance Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1160\u20131220).\nSetting\nWagner set his opera in Antwerp, now in Belgium, around the year 930. The specificity of time and place is key to the tale: a castle (parts of which still exist) on an important river (the Scheldt) on the borderlands of the emerging German nation and at the edge of Christianized Europe\u2014with pockets of paganism still thriving at that time directly to the north. In his new production this season, director Fran\u00e7ois Girard places the opera\u2019s action in an abstract setting that is simultaneously contemporary and fantastical.\nMusic\nThe score of Lohengrin is a supreme achievement in Romanticism: All the diverse, sometimes extreme expressions of the genre are magnificently and coherently presented. It includes Wagner\u2019s most ethereal music for both the orchestra and voice, and the choral writing is unsurpassed anywhere, expressing human hopes and fears as effectively as it reflects the dawning of a community consciousness. For decades, Lohengrin remained Wagner\u2019s most performed opera and was regarded as a sort of \u201cgateway\u201d to his entire corpus of works. It contains several passages well-known beyond the opera house, from orchestral sections familiar from the concert hall and even film scores to the ubiquitous Bridal Chorus, which is used quite differently in the opera than most weddings would lead one to think.\nText and images source: The Metropolitan Opera."},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/02\/22\/piotr-beczala-in-lohengrin-at-the-met-opera-2\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/1600x685-lohengrin-2-2.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2023\/02\/1600x685-lohengrin-2-2.jpg","width":1600,"height":685},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/2023\/02\/22\/piotr-beczala-in-lohengrin-at-the-met-opera-2\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Piotr Becza\u0142a in Lohengrin at The Met Opera"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#website","url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/","name":"Instytut Polski w Nowym Jorku","description":"Instytuty Polskie","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"pl-PL"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/04d40cd80c1729a7f440613bee4073b6","name":"klaudia","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"pl-PL","@id":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/649cd2d4f6b3f48c5bf42d51f7e665fb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/649cd2d4f6b3f48c5bf42d51f7e665fb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"klaudia"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/lukasz.sienkiewicz@msz.gov.pl"],"url":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/author\/stypulkowskaa\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7792,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions\/7792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instytutpolski.pl\/newyork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}