The opera Czarodziejska Góra [The Magic Mountain] was given its world premiere on June 26, 2015 at the Malta Festival in Poznań, Poland. This opera is a joint work of four creators: composer Paweł Mykietyn, director and actor Andrzej Chyra, playwright Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk and visual artist Mirosław Bałka. The libretto is based on the famous novel by Thomas Mann, describing the intellectual, emotional and spiritual maturation of Hans Castrop in a sanatorium in Davos. In this interpretation, Czarodziejska Góra becomes a cruel story of love, betrayal, revenge and death.
The opera was performed by the following all-star cast of soloists:
- American: Agata Zubel
- Behrens: Łukasz Konieczny
- Joachim: Szymon Maliszewski
- Hans: Szymon Komasa
- Clavdia: Barbara Majewska
- Krokowski: Juan Noval Moro
- Naphta: Urszula Kryger
- Mrs Stöhr: Jadwiga Rappe
- Peeperkorn: Marcin Habela
- Settembrini: Karol Kozłowski
- choir/Elly Brand: Anna Gadt
- choir/Marusia: Agnieszka Kniepuszewska
- choir/Wehsal: Michał Dembiński
- choir: Iwona Kmiecik, Jacek Kotlarski, Marcin Wawrzynowicz
Czarodziejska Góra was a co-production of the Malta Festival Poznań, Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, Kraków Festival Office and Polskie Radio Program II.
[Sources: facebook.com, malta-festival.pl]