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3 unusual facts about Baltic State Opera


Baltic State Opera

In the 2011/2012 season, it organized the first edition of the Baltic Dance Theatres’ Encounters (in September 2011) and prepared the world premiere of Elżbieta Sikora’s opera Madame Curie.

As an effect of the changes introduced by the company, in 2010 the BBC named the Baltic Opera (as the first opera theatre in Poland) one of ten best opera theatres in Europe; among the others were the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, La Monnaie in Brussels and the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam.

Kazimierz Wiłkomirski

Director of the Baltic State Opera (then Gdańsk Opera) in 1952–57; professor of the Academy of Music in Sopot.



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