Moniuszko: Halka (DVD) – Corinne Winters, Piotr Beczala

Composer: Stanislaw Moniuszko
Artists: Corinne Winters, Tomasz Konieczny, Piotr Beczala, Alexey Tikhomirov, Natalia Kawalek, Lucasz Jakobski, Sreten Manojlovic, Paul Schweinester, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Conductor: Lucasz Borowicz
Director: Mariusz Trelinski
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo; DTS 5.1
Language: Polish
Subtitles: German, English, French, Korean, Japanese
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Unitel Edition
DVD Release Date: January 28, 2022
Run Time: 138 minutes

At Theater an der Wien, Stanislaw Moniuszko’s Halka is performed by a superb cast, including Corinne Winters (“devotedly”), Piotr Beczala (“vocally outstanding”) and Tomasz Konieczny (“his acting is piercing”) (Der Standard). With a libretto by young Polish poet Wlodzimierz Wolski, the opera is widely considered to be one of Moniuszko’s greatest operas, and in fact was described by noted musicologist Carl Dalhaus as “the Polish national opera.” The Polish leading team, above all director Mariusz Trelinski, puts the plot into a supercooled crime aesthetic. The ORF Radio Symphonie-Orchester Wien under the baton of Lucasz Borowicz plays with perceptible delight. “A gripping opera evening” (Wiener Zeitung).

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