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Special offer. Moniuszko: Halka
Poznan Opera, Gabriel Chmura
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
Magda Molendowska’s Halka is wonderful. Her voice is vibrant, capable of lovely soft singing that never loses tonal body, and equally capable of expressing pain and anger without the sound turning...
Special offer. Moniuszko: Halka
Poznan Opera, Gabriel Chmura
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Opera
Magda Molendowska’s Halka is wonderful. Her voice is vibrant, capable of lovely soft singing that never loses tonal body, and equally capable of expressing pain and anger without the sound turning...
About
Polish composer, conductor and teacher Stanisław Moniuszko is widely known as ‘the father of Polish national opera’. Halka tells the tragic story of its title character, a peasant girl whose love for the noble Janusz is betrayed when he abandons her to wed Zofia, daughter of the Esquire. This Poznán production was made during ‘Moniuszko Year’ in Poland, marking the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth. It also serves as a memorial to the distinguished conductor Gabriel Chmura, who was artistic director of Poznán Opera House from 2012 until his death in November 2020.
Contents and tracklist
- 1858 Version
- Piotr Friebe (tenor), Rafał Korpik (bass), Damian Konieczek (bass), Bartłomiej Szczeszek (tenor), Piotr Maciejowski (tenor), Magdalena Molendowska (soprano), Łukasz Goliński (bass-baritone), Magdalena Wilczyńska-Goś (mezzo-soprano), Andrzej Ogórkiewicz (bass-baritone), Dominik Sutowicz (tenor)
- Poznań Opera House Orchestra, Poznań Opera House Chorus
- Gabriel Chmura
Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2022Nominated - Opera
Jan/Feb 2022
Magda Molendowska’s Halka is wonderful. Her voice is vibrant, capable of lovely soft singing that never loses tonal body, and equally capable of expressing pain and anger without the sound turning hard. If you have a taste for Romantic opera, you are doing yourself a real disservice if you ignore this recording.
August 2021
Nobody will be in the slightest disappointed by this colourful, driven performance. Highly recommended indeed.
March 2022
The score’s riches are well served on Naxos’s set by a committed cast at Poznań’s Teatr Wielki, led by Magdalena Molendowska, whose soprano has just the sort of gleaming purity the title role requires.
