Opera Bałtycka

The Baltic Opera occupies one of Gdańsk's more unlikely homes. Its hall in the Wrzeszcz district went up in 1914 and 1915 as a riding hall, soon converted into a sports and entertainment venue. When the city's historic stages were destroyed in 1945, the surviving hall was adapted for music. An opera studio founded in 1949 under conductor Zygmunt Latoszewski gave its inaugural premiere, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, on 28 June 1950, the date the company counts as its birth. Merged with the Philharmonic in 1953 as the State Baltic Opera and Philharmonic, the institutions separated again in 1994, and the building has been rebuilt and modernised repeatedly since the 1950s.

With 476 seats it remains the most intimate opera hall in Poland, which lends its productions an unusual closeness. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, Czarodziejski flet in Polish, entered the repertoire in a staging by Marek Weiss that premiered on 27 March 2010, an ironic, poetic reading of the opera's Masonic rituals conducted by José Maria Florêncio.

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