• Duration: 100'
• Instrumentation: voci soli-coro misto-2222-4230-batt (timp, gr.c., 2tmt, 2 gg, 2 ptti, tmbno, vbf, mbf) chit.el. acc ar pf pno-archi
• Year: 2011
• Autor libretta: Zygmunt Krauze
• Autor libretta: Grzegorz Jarzyna
• Words: Tadeusz Różewicz
• Type: parts, score, piano reduction, choral parts

The 100-minute work consists of fourteen pitcures.The libretto was prepared by the composer in cooperation with Grzegorz Jarzyna and is based on the famous drama. As Jacek Marczyński writes ("Rzeczpospolita"): "Zygmunt Krauze had the idea of composing an opera based on one of the most important plays by Tadeusz Różewicz in 2006 after seeing "Pułapka" at the Kontakt festival in Toruń. It was a Hungarian presentation directed by Péter Gothár. It made a great impression on me. I realized that this was a phenomenal subject for an opera. What's more, I already knew how I should do it - the composer said.

There was still the problem of obtaining the authors consent. Zygmunt Krauze met Tadeusz Różewicz in 1999 during the Fundacja Kultury awards ceremony when the poet received his prize. The evening at the Royal Castle was graced with a performance of five of Krauzes songs to poems by the laureate, who regarded the musical version of his poetry with great appreciation. A few years after the Pułapka opera proposal he waited a few months with the answer, but in the end the composer received a green light. I informed director Ewa Michnik about this, says Zygmunt Krauze, She immediately took up the idea.

Wroclaw Opera, in staging "Pułapka" have given a wonderful tribute to Tadeusz Różewicz. Zygmunt Krauze and Grzegorz Jarzyna carefully made the necessary abbreviations in the play, which is considered the poets most important dramatic achievement. They preserved its structure and layout of scenes. Zygmunt Krauze's music does not blur the meaning of the words.'' [Śmierć czeka w szafie, Jacek Marczyński, Rzeczpospolita, 2011-12-19]

''Zygmunt Krauze's music successfully highlights the grotesque incompatibility of the characters to the situation in which time and delusion caught them.'' [Pułapka (Opera Wrocławska), Grzegorz Chojnowski, Polskie Radio Wrocław, 2011-12-19] ''This Różewicz-Krauze Pułapka is an unusual presentation. A chamber opera in which there are no arias, everything is based on dialogue, and the text of the libretto is a shortened text of the play (bravo for the composer and Grzegorz Jarzyna, because the cuts have unearthed what is most important, and the music has further underlined it).'' [Ja też jestem pułapką, Katarzyna Kaczorowska, Gazeta Wrocławska, 2011-12-19 ]