Praised by both Chopin and Goethe himself, the first Faust opera was not written by one of the author’s German composer peers. In fact, a Polish duke called Antoni Radziwiłł was the one brave enough ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with rising opera star and break dancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski, whose new album "Farewells" is a collection of Polish opera classics, little known to the rest of the world.

World-renowned opera singer Piotr Beczała has received an honorary doctorate from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, his alma mater in the southern Polish city of Katowice. Beczała, a leading ...

Polish singers have powered their way onto the world's greatest opera stages: the Met in New York, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Opéra Bastille in Paris and ...

A host of Polish opera singers are scheduled to perform at some of Europe’s most prestigious music festivals this summer. Tenor Piotr Beczała is cast as Radames in Verdi’s Aida at the Salzburg ...

What are the long-suffering opera lovers of Taiwan to expect of State Opera Poland? There are two wildly divergent lines of thought, each suggesting a different possible answer. The first runs as ...

Music has a language of its own. With close to 60,000 Instagram followers, Polish opera singer and breakdancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski says he is trying to use social media to break down cultural ...

Dec 5 (Reuters) - Polish opera star Jakub Jozef Orlinski's debut performance at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in "Eurydice" in November was broadcast live in movie theaters across the globe on ...

Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago's foremost producer of contemporary and re-imagined opera, kicks off its 2022/23 season with the Chicago Premiere of the grand King Roger, by composer Karol Szymanowski ...

Like so many artists during the COVID-19 lockdown, Lidiya Yankovskaya fantasized about how her company, Chicago Opera Theater, would reemerge from the pandemic. “The plan was to come back out of the ...

The largest of the countries to have recently been admitted to the European Union, Poland celebrated with a debut appearance in Britain of the Polish National Opera (PNO), featuring three masterpieces ...