Performers
Bartók Plus Opera Festival hosts world-renowned Hungarian artists as well as stars of the international opera scene. Since its beginnings almost all significant soloists, opera companies and music ensembles from Central Eastern Europe have appeared on its stages at least once. You will find information about them under the menu item Performers.
Graduated from radio-mechanical faculty of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, finished a director''s and actor''s course in Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. In 1994 founded the center of the modern art „Dakh" in 2001 and 2002 became the laureate of the award Kyiv Pektora. In 2005 his performances „Hamlet" and Chongar and Tyunga were in top ten performances in Hungary. From 2004 to 2009 taught at Karpenko-Kary National University of Theatre, Film and TV.
Director, designer and playwright
Michał Znaniecki was born in Warsaw where he later attended the Academy of Dramatic Arts, subsequently completing his studies in Bologna and Milan. His directing career began in 1994 with productions in Poland, France, Belgium, Ireland and Italy following by Spain, Israel, Argentina and Uruguay. He has produced more than 200 new productions of drama, opera and musical in the main theatres and festivals of the world working with the best actors and singers, e.g. Plácido Domingo, Piotr Beczała, Lorin Maazel or José Cura among others.
Kielce Dance Theatre was established on the base of artistic achievements of private ensemble of Elżbieta Szlufik-Pańtak. Since 1998 as the Association Kielce Dance Theatre was leading together by Elżbieta Szlufik-Pańtak and Grzegorz Pańtak. 11 March 2004 it was appointed as the City Institution of Culture (since 2013 r. institution of Art, entered in the register of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage). Since that date its organizer is City Kielce .
From the world opening night of the first Croatian national opera Love and Malice composed by Vatroslav Lisinski in 1846 that was created amid the fight for national awareness until the establishment of the first institutional Opera in 1870, as one of the first in this part of Europe, the music and stage life in Zagreb continuously evolved.
