2017-09-28

On 13 October, the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera invites you to the season’s first operatic premiere: Ludomir Różycki’s ‘Eros i Psyche’ [Eros and Psyche], directed by Barbara Wysocka and conducted by the PNO’s new musical director, Grzegorz Nowak.

Following the international success of Władysław Żeleński’s ‘Goplana’ (International Opera Awards – an operatic Oscar in the ‘rediscovered work’ category), the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera is reviving another Polish opera, thereby continuing the cycle of new productions of national works.

Ludomir Różycki’s ‘Eros and Psyche’ is an opera based on the play by Jerzy Żuławski, which was incredibly popular in the early twentieth century. Between the wars, this work was performed on European stages, but it was later forgotten. It deals with man’s eternal longing for an ideal world. The titular Psyche travels through a succession of epochs: from ancient Arcadia, through the Roman Empire, mediaeval Europe and the French Revolution, to the beginning of the twentieth century. In each separate reality, he is reborn in a different role and recommences his search for the ideal.

Eros and Psyche, Antonio Canova