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FULL Die schwarze Maske (Penderecki) Warsaw 1988
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Die schwarze Maske
- Composer: Penderecki Krzysztof
- Libretto: Krzysztof Penderecki, Harry Kupfer based on a 1928 play by Gerhart Hauptmann. Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatr Wielki, Warsaw, Poland
- Recorded: 1988
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: Robert Satanowski
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Albert Andre Lheureux
- Costume Designer: Andrzej Majewski
Information about the Recording
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 2 Audio:2
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Bolkenhain in southwest Poland, 1662.
For the Carnival in Bolkenhain 1662, 13 people gather for dinner with the wealthy Mayor Schuller, while the city is ravaged by the plague outside. An unknown guest wearing a black mask appears and remembers the past. Benigna, who is now Schuller’s wife, once had a love affair with the slave Johnson in Amsterdam. Her daughter Arabella is now Schuller’s maid. Johnson forced his mistress to marry the wealthy slave trader Geldern and blackmailed her until the husband died under mysterious circumstances. It quickly becomes clear that everyone present is a criminal and that Johnson’s deadly vengeance is hidden behind the mask.
C’est la création de l’opéra en langue polonaise. En présence du compositeur et… du général Jaruzelski.