🪐 Seven Planets returns on September 21st!💫

Seven Planets is back!

We invite you to Płock on September 21 for the Dramma Per Musica festival!

The Baroque Orchestra Cornu Copiae, conducted by Karolina Habało, together with dancers from the Varsavia Galante ensemble, brought back to life the forgotten Dresden opera-ballet "Seven Planets". It features personifications of the celestial bodies known at the time: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon. Each of them was accompanied by dancers in the roles of kings, beggars, witches, shepherds, suitors, Amazons, and even seasons and directions of the world. The multi-part piece had many authors of music and librettos, perhaps that is why it shared the fate of many occasional compositions of the time and has probably not been performed since its carnival premiere in 1678. When preparing a new adaptation in 2022, Polish artists decided to present a slightly more up-to-date vision of the work, which is why in the dance parts, enriched with French music from the era, we will see completely contemporary scenes from the love relationship of two people.

The magnificent Małachowianka Aula is an excellent place for opera-ballet, and that is where we will inaugurate the Płock part of the Festival on Saturday, September 21, at 6:00 p.m.

FREE ADMISSION!

"The Seven Planets" – opera-ballet (Dresden 1678)

Ingrida Gapova – soprano

Michał Sławecki – countertenor

Bartosz Nowak – tenor

Piotr Pieron - bass

Cornu Copiae Baroque Orchestra

Varsavia Galante dance group

Karolina Habało – artistic direction

Edgar Lewandowski – choreography

The Dramma per Musica Warsaw/Płock 2024 Festival is held thanks to the support of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage as part of the "Music" program, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance. The patron of the Festival is YAL sp. z o. o. The partners of the Festival are the City of Płock, the Płock Center for Culture and Arts and the Institute of Musicology of the University of Warsaw.