Poland`s Silesian Opera Company does not possess international-caliber singers, yet the troupe nearly transcended that limitation with its passionate performance of Poland`s beloved opera ”Halka” ...

Every Pole knows Moniuszko composed ‘Halka’ and ‘The Haunted Manor’, that he was the father of Polish opera, and that his face decorated the 100,000 PLN banknotes for a while. But there are so many ...

Polish singers have powered their way onto the world's greatest opera stages: the Met in New York, Covent Garden in London, La Scala in Milan, the Vienna Staatsoper, the Opéra Bastille in Paris and ...

World-renowned opera singer Piotr Beczała has received an honorary doctorate from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, his alma mater in the southern Polish city of Katowice. Beczała, a leading ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with rising opera star and break dancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski, whose new album "Farewells" is a collection of Polish opera classics, little known to the rest of the world.

Manru, an opera by Polish composer, pianist and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941), was staged at the Opéra National de Lorraine in the eastern French city of Nancy on Tuesday. Ignacy Jan ...

KATOWICE, Poland, March 13 (Reuters) - With close to 60,000 Instagram followers, Polish opera singer and breakdancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski says he is trying to use social media to break down cultural ...

Polish opera star Jakub Jozef Orlinski's debut performance at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in "Eurydice" in November was broadcast live in movie theaters across the globe on Saturday. Orlinski, ...

Music lovers who think only of Chopin and Paderewski in connection with Polish music should add Stanislaw Moniuszko, the 19th-century composer of numerous operas -- including 1848's "Halka", long ...

(Reuters) – Polish opera star Jakub Jozef Orlinski’s debut performance at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera in “Eurydice” in November was broadcast live in movie theaters across the globe on Saturday ...

Dec 5 (Reuters) - Polish opera star Jakub Jozef Orlinski's debut performance at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in "Eurydice" in November was broadcast live in movie theaters across the globe on ...