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unusual facts about Grand Theatre, Łódź



Andy Heathcote

He has attended the Northern Film School and the Polish National Film School in Łódź.

Anna P. Baker

Ambrose was the proprietor of the Grand Theatre (now Theatre London) who disappeared Dec 2, 1919 after selling his theatrical holdings, leaving his wife, $2 million and a legal tangle.

Battle of Borowa Góra

General Wiktor Thommée, who commanded Piotrków Operational Group of Łódź Army, ordered Colonel Czyżewski to defend a 25-kilometer line in the area of Rozprza.

Carroll Glenn

The tour, sponsored by the US State Department and the Polish Art Agency, had Freeman conduct concerts with the orchestras in Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Łódź, Poznań, Warsaw, and Kraków.

Chaim Janowski

After the First World War, he played in a team match Warsaw vs. Łódź (lost two games to Dawid Przepiórka) in 1922.

Chełmno Trials

The first judicial trial of the former SS men – members of the SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof – took place in 1945 at the District Court in Łódź, Poland.

Czarnieckiego Prison

Czarnieckiego (or Czarneckiego) Prison in Łódź within Ghetto Litzmannstadt, historic site no longer in existence, mentioned in World War II literature

David Beigelman

He wrote the music for Julius Adler's operettas Dos Skoytn-meydl and Di mume Gnendil and Yankev Vaksman (1866-1942)'s 's Di Sheyne Berta, all of which were staged in Łódź, and arranged the music for S. Ansky's The Dybbuk.

Dzielnica

Łódź, Wrocław and Poznań are each divided into five districts of this type.

Georgina Cookson

She was no less busy in the 50s, with notable appearances including Lionel Shapiro’s The Bridge for Bristol Old Vic (1952); 13 for Dinner (Duke of York's Theatre, 1953); the world premier of I Capture the Castle, with Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers and a young Roger Moore, which opened at Grand Theatre, Blackpool before transferring to the Aldwych Theatre in 1954; and Robert Morley’s Six Months’ Grace (Phoenix Theatre, 1957).

Gostków

Nowy Gostków, a village in Gmina Wartkowice, Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship

Grand Theatre, Lancaster

In that first summer, the plays Hamlet and The Belle's Stratagem were performed at the theatre, and received good reviews.

Grand Theatre, Leeds

The theatre closed at the end of May 2005 for a major refurbishment, entitled transformation, and reopened on 7 October 2006 with a production of Verdi's Rigoletto.

The Grand Theatre (also known as Leeds Grand Theatre and Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House) is a theatre and Opera house in the centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

Grand Theatre, Łódź

Teatr Wielki w Łodzi (The Grand Theater in Łódź) is an opera house in Łódź, Poland.

Grand Theatre, Poznań

Grand Theatre, Poznań (Polish: Teatr Wielki im. Stanisława Moniuszki w Poznaniu) is a neoclassical opera house located in Poznań, Poland.

Grażyna Bacewicz

She returned briefly to Poland to teach in Łódź, but returned to Paris in 1934 in order to study with the Hungarian violinist Carl Flesch (Thomas 2001).

Jerzy Konorski

Jerzy Konorski (December 1, 1903 in Łódź, Poland – November 14, 1973 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish neurophysiologist who further developed the work of Ivan Pavlov by discovering secondary conditioned reflexes and operant conditioning.

Kazimierz Sikorski

He was rector of the State Higher School of Music in Łódź.

Loki – Wizja Dźwięku

A music video for the song was shot by Mateusz Winkiel in an Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Łódź.

Lwów Ghetto

On the eve of World War II, the city of Lwów had the third-largest Jewish population in Poland, after Warsaw and Łódź, 99,600 in 1931 (32%) by confession criteria (percent of people of Jewish faith) and numbering 75,300 (24%) by language criteria (percent of people speaking Yiddish or Hebrew as their mother tongue), according to Polish official census.

Maria Piotrowiczowa

Maria Piotrowiczowa, a January insurgent, participant of the battle of Dobra (the Łódź province), born in 1839, killed on 24 February 1863.

Ming Fay

Exhibitions have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris (New York, NY), the National Academy Museum (New York, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Łódź Biennale at The International Artists’ Museum (Łódź, Poland), Butters Gallery (Portland, Oregon), Ramapo Gallery (Ramapo, New Jersey) and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Modzelewski

Stanisław Modzelewski, Polish serial killer active in Łódź, Poland during the 1960s

Musée Rath

It is located on Place Neuve, in front of the old city walls, next to the Grand Théâtre and near the Conservatoire de Musique.

National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art

The School closely cooperates with many schools of similar type; among them are Juilliard (USA), Detmold, Viernheim, Weimar and Vasario 16-osios (Germany), Łódź and Kraków (Poland).

Obwodnica Trójmiejska

It enables traveling up to Grudziądz using a motorway, and when the A1 is completed it will connect Gdańsk, through Toruń, Łódź and Katowice to the Czech border in the south.

Opera house

Traditionally, Europe's major opera houses built in the 19th century contained between about 1,500 to 3,000 seats, examples being Brussels' La Monnaie (after renovations, with 1,700 seats), Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater (with 1,636), Warsaw's Grand Theatre (the main auditorium with 1,841), Paris' Opéra Garnier (with 2,200), the Royal Opera House in London (with 2,268) and the Vienna State Opera (the new auditorium with reduced capacity of 2,280).

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

Piotr Tomaszewski

Although he only received fourth prize, Tomaszewski was the only Polish competitor at the 1998 Alexandre Tansman International Competition for Musical Personalities, held in Łódź.

Piotrkowski

Piotrków County, powiat piotrkowski, unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland

Proba

Próba, Łódź Voivodeship, village in the administrative district of Gmina Brzeźnio, within Sieradz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.

Przywidz

Przywidz, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Rape during the liberation of Poland

In a letter to his Voivode, a Łódź county starosta warned that plunder of goods from stores and farms, was often accompanied by the rape of farmhands as in Zalesie, Olechów, Feliksin and Huta Szklana, not to mention other crimes, including murder-rape in Łagiewniki.

Rewolucyjni Mściciele

The group expanded from Łódź to many other towns in the Russian partition of Poland: Warsaw, Częstochowa, Kraków, Radom, Kielce, Sosnowiec, Będzin, Ostrów, Kalisz, Żyrardów and Zgierz.

Robert Zajonc

In 1939, before the Nazi invasion of Poland reached Łódź, his family fled to Warsaw.

Silesian Voivodeship

The voivodship capital enjoys good railway and road connections with Gdańsk (motorway A1) and Ostrava (motorway A1), Kraków (motorway A4), Wrocław (motorway A4), Łódź (motorway A1) and Warsaw.

Stanisław Kuczborski

Kuczborski obtained his high school diploma in 1930, at the Mikołaj Kopernik Boys’ High School in Łódź.

Tommy Farr

A musical based on Farr's career, Contender, was composed by Mal Pope and premiered at the United Nations building in New York, followed by a season at Swansea's Grand Theatre.

Tonino Delli Colli

In 2005, Delli Colli was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th annual Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.

Urszula Modrzyńska

In the 1970s she played only smaller parts in movies by young directors, as in Droga w świetle księżyca by Witold Orzechowski (1972), Rozmowa by Piotr Andrejew (1974), and Zdjęcia Próbne by Agnieszka Holland, Paweł Kędzierski and Jerzy Domaradzki (1976), concentrating on her theater work at Nowy Theater in Łódź.

Warsaw Railway Junction

In 1902 the broad gauge Warsaw–Kalisz Railway was constructed on the left bank of the Vistula river connecting Warsaw through Łódź to Kalisz and later extended to the border of the Prussian controlled Province of Posen.

Welsh Comedy Festival

The inaugural festival opened at Gio's and moved to locations such as The Point at Cardiff Bay, The Social (Cardiff) and the Cardiff University Student's Union and included a visit to Swansea's famous Grand Theatre during the festivities organised by local stand up comic and promoter Jeff Baker of Cracker Ass Comedy fame.

White Factory

In the first half of the 19th century Łódź, which was a part of the Russian Empire and previously a small town, experienced a rapid economic and industrial development.

Winter Gardens, Blackpool

The original building, completed in 1889, at a cost of £9,098 was designed by the prolific theatre architect Frank Matcham, who also designed the nearby Grand Theatre and the Tower Ballroom.

Władysław Raczkowski

Władysław Raczkowski (19 May 1893, Wartkowice, Congress Poland – 1 July 1959, Łódź) was a Polish conductor and composer.


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