At the meeting in Warsaw Director of the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre Andrei Shishkin and Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute Paweł Potoroczyn signed an agreement on cooperation in the project of staging Moisey Weinberg’s opera The Passenger.
«Considering that the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre as one of the leading opera houses operating in the territory of the Russian Federation is planning to mount the first-ever production of the opera The Passenger by Mieczyslaw Weinberg,
Considering that the Adam Mickiewicz Institute makes a significant contribution to the promotion of musical heritage of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, as well as to the dissemination of information on his life and work,
The Parties have decided to declare an intention to cooperate in the implementation of the Russian stage premiere of the opera The Passenger in Ekaterinburg, as well as in a number of accompanying events, including concerts, reports, conferences and lectures, as well as in promotional activities in the broadest sense of the definition in Russia and abroad.”
Weinberg’s opera The Passenger mounted at Ekaterinburg Opera will be its first-ever staged version in Russia. The premiere is scheduled for 15 Septermber, 2016.
