Baltic Opera Festival

The Polish Wedding (Polskie wesele)

Józef Beer

Detailed information

Composer

Józef Beer

Duration

3 h

Premiere

3 July 2026

Premiere at Baltic Opera Gdansk

3 July 2026

Where?

Baltic Opera

Creatives

music direction / conductor

Łukasz Borowicz

direction

Paweł Miśkiewicz

adaptation and dramaturgy

Daria Kubisiak

choreography and stage movement

Maćko Prusak

set design

Barbara Hanicka

costumes and set design collaboration

Marta Szypulska

costume collaboration

Kacper Łyszczarz

lighting design and video projections

Marek Kozakiewicz

multimedia animations

Oliwia Szanajca-Kossakowska

Choir direction

Anna Grabowska-Borys

Ballet management

Małgorzata Dzierżon

assistants conductor

Szymon Naściszewski

Natalia Nicowska

assistants director

Hanna Marsza-Fiugajska

Bartosz Śmigielski

assistants choreographer

Anna Szopa-Kimso

Piotr Oleksiak

technical producer

Maciej Węglarz

producers

Jacek Rzempołuch

Iwona Handzlik

soloist preparation

Ashot Drnayan-Babrouski

soloist tutors

Anita Tashkinova

Katarzyna Neugebauer-Jastrzębska

Ivan Zhukov

stage managers

Adam Frontczak

Patrycja Kuruc

translation of the libretto into Polish

Dorota Krzywicka-Kaindel

translation of the libretto into English

Dorota Sawka

Description

In the operetta The Polish Wedding (Polskie wesele), we meet Bolesław, a young insurgent in hiding in Austria. His longing for his beloved Jadzia forces him to return to his homeland illegally. At the least expected moment, he discovers that Jadzia is set to marry his uncle, Count Staszek Zagórski. Will the two lovers be able to change their fate?

The Polish Wedding by Józef Beer is a remarkable work that balances between opera, operetta, and musical theatre, and will receive its first-ever full stage production in Poland. Originally written in German, the piece remained absent from the Polish theatrical repertoire for decades; a few years ago, it was presented in concert form in Kraków.

Its seemingly light, melodramatic plot conceals a profound historical and political context. The action takes place during the period of the Russian Partition of Poland, and the private love story intertwines with questions of national identity, belonging, and collective memory.

“At first glance, it appears to be an operetta, but in fact it is a work ‘between genres’ and between worlds,” emphasizes Tomasz Konieczny. “The Polish Wedding speaks about community, about the rituals and symbols that constitute it, but also about the tensions arising from history and politics.”

Cast

Baron Mietek Ogiński

Jerzy Butryn

Jadzia

Monika Radecka

Count Staszek Zagórski

Grzegorz Szostak

Count Bolesław Zagórski

Piotr Buszewski

Zuza

Marta Wiktorzak

Kazimierz von Kawiecki

Hubert Zapiór

Mazurkiewicz

Marcin Klarman

Sergiuisz Korozow

Sebastian Rutkowski

Second Lieutenant

Jerzy Szlachcic

Władek

Andrzej Zborowski

Zdenka

Kinga Mazurkiewicz-Pala

Stasia

Katarzyna Toboła

Stefek

Rafał Romanicz

Wacek

Daniel Babuśka

Bridesmaids (ex wives of Count Staszek)

Ewa Kaim

Canan Kalkir

Beata Marciniak

Liliana Jędrzejczak

Anna Krzyżowska-Kawałko

Girls

Nicola Jamrozik

Urszula Czupryńska

Marika Gryń

Liliana Jędrzejczak

Sabina Szkwarek

Farmers

Andrzej Zborowski

Piotr Bunzler

Chorus of the Wrocław Opera

Ballet of the Wrocław Opera

Orchestra of the Wrocław Opera

Andrzej Jagodziński Trio

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3 July 2026

19:00

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