Dźwiękoksiężnik

We invite our youngest lis­ten­ers into the mag­i­cal world of sounds — musi­cal and non-musi­cal, beau­ti­ful and irri­tat­ing, ordi­nary… and quite out of the ordinary.

The char­ac­ters of the chil­dren’s micro-opera “Dźwiękok­siężnik” — the Sound­wiz­ard and his assis­tant Kle­o­fas — spe­cialise in brew­ing son­ic elixirs. Their work­shop seethes with all man­ner of sounds — intrigu­ing tones from nature, but also the loud nois­es of work­ing machines. One day the wiz­ards receive a task that seems impos­si­ble: they must cre­ate an elixir of silence for a cer­tain lady who can­not bear the noise sur­round­ing her. The dif­fi­cul­ty of con­coct­ing such a mix­ture moti­vates the friends to set off into the world in search of the per­fect silence.

The cast is small. In addi­tion to the soloists, you will hear oboe, cel­lo, piano, and elec­tron­ics. An impor­tant aspect of the musi­cal lay­er is the exten­sive use of extend­ed instru­men­tal and vocal tech­niques. The use of sounds such as play­ing on the oboe reed, strik­ing the res­onat­ing body of the cel­lo, mul­ti­phon­ics, over­tone singing, and every­day objects to pro­duce sounds con­nects to the libret­to of “Dźwiękok­siężnik”, which tells of the extra­or­di­nary, hyp­not­ic sounds pro­duced by the title char­ac­ter. The elec­tron­ic lay­er, also rich in uncon­ven­tion­al sounds, is an impor­tant ele­ment of this sound-and-music laboratory.

Programme:

Alek­san­dra Chmielews­ka – chil­dren’s micro-opera Dźwiękok­siężnik*

*world pre­miere

Performing:

Krzysztof Rata­js­ki bass

Ambroży Gola­chows­ki tenor

Natalia Jarosiewicz sopra­no

Alek­san­dra Popi­ołek-Wal­ic­ki piano

Fil­ip Sporni­ak cel­lo

Maria Banaszak oboe

Alek­san­dra Chmielews­ka elec­tron­ics

Production:

pro­gramme con­cept and text: Alek­san­dra Chmielews­ka
pro­duc­tion: Olga Pasek
visu­al iden­ti­ty: Katarzy­na Kostec­ka
sound direc­tion: Kos­ma Standera

direc­tion: Mił­ka Dziasek

Set design: Bar­bara Niestrawska

Video: Mag­dale­na Parszewska

Per­for­mance times: 10:00, 11:30

more infor­ma­tion on the oper­a’s website