Opening Night: 27 September 1998
Author: Jerzy Grzegorzewski
Title: Halka Spinoza or The Lost Opera or The Grief for the Escaping Life
Original Title: Halka Spinoza albo Opera Utracona albo Żal za uciekającym bezpowrotnie życiem
With texts of Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Józef Tischner and Włodzimierz Wolski
With the music of Stanisław Moniuszko and Stanisław Radwan
Director: Jerzy Grzegorzewski

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall
Running time: 1 hour 25 min

Halka Spinoza

director: Jerzy Grzegorzewski
set design: Jerzy Grzegorzewski, Barbara Hanicka
costume design: Barbara Hanicka
lighting design: Mirosław Poznański

Cast:

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Vignac Stacy Krzysztof Wakuliński
Opera artists:
Fajtcacy – soprano Ewa Konstancja Bułhak
Kinofalos – tenor Mariusz Benoit
Vigor – tenor Andrzej Blumenfeld
Viviani – tenor Jacek Różański (till August 31, 1999 as a guest actor)
Halka Maria Mitrosz (guest actor) / Magdalena Andreew (from April 27, 1999; guest actor)
Opera director Jerzy Łapiński
Cameraman Wojciech Malajkat
Cameraman's assistant Radosław Elis
Klaudestyna Anna Chodakowska
Bella-Bello Magdalena Warzecha
Dzinia Katarzyna Taracińska
Ficia Kinga Ilgner
Sylfa Karolina Dryzner
Bixia Sylwia Nowiczewska
Grandmother Halucyna Wiesława Niemyska
Karol Jerzy Węgorzewski Olgierd Łukaszewicz
Sister Dora Gabriela Kownacka (till August 31, 1999 as a guest actor)
Doctor Dorn Michał Pawlicki
Corypheuses of highlanders' choir Jerzy Radziwiłowicz, Zbigniew Zamachowski
Highlanders' choir Łukasz Lewandowski, Paweł Tołwiński, Maciej Wojdyła, Leszek Zduń
Phantom of a Knight of Giewont Michał Pawlicki
Dancing at the Savoy Hotel Elżbieta Piekacz (guest actor), Ireneusz Dydliński (guest actor), Ewa Szawłowska (guest actor), Mikołaj Klimek (guest actor), Anna Szczerbińska (guest actor), Marcin Kocela (guest actor), Alicja Szymańska (guest actor), Sławomir Śmiałek (guest actor), Magdalena Czartoryjska (from November 17, 1998; guest actor), Joanna Kwiatkowska-Zduń (from January 18, 2000)
Halka Spinoza Katarzyna Kowalska (guest actor)
and guests
Model Sylwia Stępniak / Beata Ciecierska-Zajdel (from November 17, 1998; understudy)
Musicians Maciej Muczke, Michał Woźniak, Zbigniew Górski (understudy), Adam Kotula (understudy)

Production team:

  • director's assistants: Wiesława Niemyska, Marcin Grota (TA)
  • set designer's assistants: Jadwiga Michalska, Anita Świderek
  • lighting technician: Krzysztof Trzaskowski
  • sound technician: Mariusz Maszewski

Gallery:

Krzysztof Wakuliński (Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz) and the Company. Phot. Wojciech Plewiński

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