Giuseppe Verdi
Trubadur
The premiere
Giuseppe Verdi's Troubadour interpreted by Barbara Wiśniewska is a story about how the decisions of previous generations define the lives of the present. We can talk here about the transmission of trauma, a disease that passes from the ancestors by words and deeds, undetectable and gluttonous. In the first scene, we get to know fragments of a story from the past, which motivates the main characters: the Count and the troubadour Manrico and his adoptive mother – Azucena. However, it is not the source of the trauma – the event shrouded in mystery that separated the two brothers, the Count and Manrico, that the composer focuses on, but the tragic consequences of fulfilling an imaginary order for revenge.
Can such a tragic story have any constructive meaning? Perhaps it's a story about how we should strive to stop the toxic cycle which was started by our ancestors? As a community, perhaps we should tell a cautionary the story like this.

Fot. Bartek Warzecha, oprac. graficzne Michał Dąbrowski
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Trubadur
Opera in four acts
Libretto: Leone Emanuele Bardare and Salvadore Cammarano
The world premiere: Jan 19, 1853, Teatro Apollo, Rome
The premiere: Apr 22, 2023, The Castle Opera in Szczecin
Music director | Jerzy Wołosiuk |
Direction | Barbara Wiśniewska |
Scenography and light direction | Magdalena Musiał |
Costume design | Mateusz Stępniak |
Dramatist | Marcin Cecko |
Choreography | Tomasz Jan Wygoda |
Music cooperation | Ewelina Rożek-Jaworska |
Choreography cooperation | Grzegorz Brożek |
The Castle Opera Choir preparation | Małgorzata Bornowska |
The Jan Szyrocki Memorial Choir of West Pomerania University of Technology preparation | Dariusz Sikorski |
Leonora | Joanna Tylkowska-Drożdż, Victoria Vatutina |
Azucena | Ewa Zeuner |
Manrico | Irakli Murjikneli, Dominik Sutowicz |
Hrabia Luna | Tomasz Łuczak, Bartłomiej Misiuda |
Ferrando | Janusz Lewandowski, Rafał Pawnuk |
Ines | Sandra Klara Januszewska, Ewa Olszewska |
Ruiz | Marcin Scech, Paweł Wolski |
Posłaniec | Ruslan Bilchak, Petr Zizyak |
Stary Cygan | Dawid Safin, Adam Szramski |
Orchestra, Choir and Ballet of the Castle Opera | |
The Jan Szyrocki Memorial Choir of West Pomerania University of Technology, Szczecin | |
Conductor | Jerzy Wołosiuk |
Stage managemen | Marta Miklińska |