Cracow. Belcanto – the joy of singing. The Krakow Opera will celebrate the double jubilee of Ryszard Karczykowska
Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi … excerpts from the most famous works by masters of Italian opera performed by renowned soloists and the Krakow Opera Orchestra and Choir will resound on the stage at ul. Lubicz during the “Belcanto – Singing” gala on April 23 at 6.30 pm. A guest performing in the current year.
Born in Tczew, Ryszard Karczykowski graduated from the State Higher School of Music in Gdańsk in the class of Halina Mickiewicz and music directing at the Musikhochschule Eisler in Berlin. I was a soloist of, among others scenes in Dessau, Leipzig, Dresden, London, Vienna and Berlin. A breakthrough in his career was his performance in G. Verdi’s “La Traviata” at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 1976 and in “Bat’s Revenge” (next to Kiri Te Kanawa, under the direction of Zubina Mahty) in Covent Garden in 1977. Since then, he has sung in operas and concert halls in Europe, Asia and both Americas, together with the most outstanding soloists – incl. with Ileana Cotrubas, Agnes Baltsa, Sylvia Sass, Placido Domingo. Krakow audiences also know him as the artistic director of the Krakow Opera in 2003-2006; singers from the Academy of Music in Krakow – as a long-time teacher and master.
It is difficult to celebrate the jubilee more appropriately than a concert dedicated to the masterpieces of the opera belcanto – works that show that they sing proficiency
and beauty as well as celebrating its vocal voices. The undisputed masters of this style were Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini, who brilliantly used purely musical, spectacular elements of “beautiful singing”, not forgetting about the dramatic expression – both in the light and witty opera buffa, and in the opera of the series, the tragedy about often a bloody finale. These gains were assimilated and then processed by Giuseppe Verdi; Beginning with a formal search or obtained from belcanto, there can also be deepened dramas and cures psychological realism, not following from the eyes the noble charm of human sight – echoes, or they echo in his style of later works, eg in “Othello”.
During the concert, we will hear the Krakow Opera Soloists: Agnieszka Czialny-Niezgódka, Monika Korybalska, Agnieszka Kuk, Paula Maciołek, Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha, Robert Gierlach, Michał Kutnik and Wołodymyr Pańkiw. Guest speech by Anna Farysej, laureate of the Special Director of the Krakow Opera in the 8th International Vocal Competition Jan Kiepura in Krynica-Zdrój. The cast will also be joined by students of the Vocal and Acting Department of the Academy of Music in Krakow – Kamila Dutkowska and Adrian Domarecki. The soloists will be accompanied by the Opera Orchestra and Choir under the direction of Tomasz Tokarczyk. In the repertoire you cultivate and progress and you do better and better Krakow – incl. “Don Pasquale” and “The Potion of Love” by G. Donizetti or “The Barber of Seville” by G. Rossini, but also from “Rigoletto”, “Othello” and even the often staged “Sicilian Vespers” by G. Verdi. The whole will open with a selection of excerpts from “Norma” by V. Bellini. There will also be a few surprises …
“Belcanto – the joy of singing”, 23 April, 6:30 pm, Krakow Opera (Big Stage)
Will perform:
Agnieszka Czułka-Niezgódka, Monika Korybalska, Agnieszka Kuk, Paula Maciołek, Katarzyna Oleś-Blacha, Robert Gierlach, Michał Kutnik, Wołodymir Pańkiw
Guest stars: Anna Farysej
Students of the Vocal and Acting Department of the Academy of Music Krzysztof Penderecki in Krakow: Kamila Dutkowska, Adrian Domarecki
Krakow Opera Orchestra and Choir
Conductor: Tomasz Tokarczyk