New Arts International

- A real event in the world of opera: Polish favorite and most fortunate opera, Halka, by Stanislaw Moniuszko in a production by Chopin Institute.
- Composed in 1847, but staged for the first time in 1857, Halka is one of the finest operatic works in European Romantisicm
- This is the world premiere recording that uses a period instrument orchestra (the famous Europa Galante).
- The conductor is one of our time leading conductors for period performances: Fabio Biondi
- Biondi himself is excited about the composer and his opera: “Moniuszko is a composer to whom one cannot but refer with great enthusiasm”
- The opera is sung in the Italian language version.

The passion that engulfed me for the music of the great Stanis∏aw Moniuszko was not by chance. In the Europe of the first half of the nineteenth century, filled with the operatic element, under the powerful sway of the phenomenon of Giuseppe Verdi, we are enchanted by the language which the great Polish master succeeded in personalising in such an exceptional, distinctive way. In his scores, we find wonderful lyricism and splendid instrumentation, referring with deference to the great German symphonists, and at the same time to Italian simplicity. Above all, however, we discover the wonderfully mined potential of popular Polish music of those times. This all means that Moniuszko is a composer to whom one cannot but refer with great enthusiasm, if one wishes to better understand the phenomenon of nineteenth-century European music.