Opening Night: 19 January 2019
Author: Johann Strauss
Title: Zemsta nietoperza
Original Title: Die Fledermaus
Authors of libretto: Karl Haffner, Richard Genée
Translators of libretto: Michał Zadara, Justyna Skoczek
Director: Michał Zadara
Musical director: Justyna Skoczek

Auditorium: Boguslawski Hall 
Running time: 3 hours including two intervals

Die Fledermaus

The rousing operetta of all-time performed by drama actors. 

The exclusive parties, masquerades, parlor intrigues – and delinquency, trespasses, marital betrayals at the same time. The maids aspire to movie-star career while eccentric millionaires go to the prison as they would go to the ball. This is how they party in Warsaw!

director: Michał Zadara
musical director: Justyna Skoczek
set designer: Robert Rumas 
costume designers: Julia Kornacka, Arek Ślesiński 
choreography: Ewelina Adamska-Porczyk
lighting design, video: Artur Sienicki
fight choreography: Dawid Fajer
stunt effects: Piotr Nawrocki

Cast:

Rosalinde Anna Lobedan
Adele Marta Wągrocka (as a guest actor from September 1, 2023)
Eseinstein Mateusz Rusin
Alfred Karol Dziuba
Dr Falke Oskar Hamerski
Dr Blind Waldemar Kownacki
Frank, Plumber-Pianist Paweł Paprocki
Prince Orlofsky Przemysław Stippa
Ida Wiktoria Gorodeckaja / Ewa Konstancja Bułhak
Melanie Monika Dryl
Felicitas Paulina Szostak
Minni Anna Grycewicz
Hermine Paulina Korthals / Joanna Kwiatkowska-Zduń
Ali Bey Bartłomiej Bobrowski
Murray, Frosch Kacper Matula
Ivan Kamil Mrożek
Cariconi Hubert Paszkiewicz 


And children:

Maja Amsterdamska (till September 24, 2021) / Kalina Paprocka (till March 8, 2020) – Daughter
Emilia Mytkowska / Helena Rakowicz-Raczyńska Nela Wysocka-Zadara  Daughter

Musical ensemble:

Justyna Skoczek – piano
Anna Maria Staśkiewicz / Marcin Markowicz / Katarzyna Denkiewicz – violin
Marcin Kamiński / Robert Nalewajka – flute
Michał Górczyński / Oliwier Andruszczenko / Marcin Nowak – clarinet
Leszek Lorent – drums
Henryk Kowalewicz / Tomasz Bińkowski / Ewa Paciorek – French horn

Production team:

  • director's assistants: Agata Krolov (AT), Karolina Pawłoś (AT)
  • sound technicians: Mariusz Maszewski, Marek Szymański, Hubert Majewski
  • lighting technicians: Zbigniew Szulim, Bartłomiej Kaczalski  
  • video projection: Marek Szymański, Hubert Majewski, Mariusz Chałubek, Paweł Woźniak 
  • stage manager: Adam Borkowski



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