Alcina by G.F. Händel (2023)
Production with participants of Handel Opera Academy in Tarnowskie Góry.
Staging inspired by nordic folklore.
Conductor: Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernández
Set and costume designer: Zuzanna Ostropolska-Nalewaja
Dramaturg: Ewa Mikuła
Light director: Mikołaj Wolniewski
Cast: Abigail Gerstle, Taylor Fenner, Yoonhee Park, Francesca Fioravanti, Jiayu Jin, Ge Tian, Dima Bakri, Lotta Bagge, Charles Sudan, Rosina Fabius, Leah Kun, Shauna Claire, Casey Lyons, Patrick McGinley, Grzegorz Zajączkowski
Extras (children): Julka, Agatka
Photos: Kaja Gómez-Cabrero, Szymon Komarnicki (pictures 2 & 8)
Soprano’s forbidden fruits
(2023 )
Production with The Northern Opera Company during MULF Festival in Muhos (Finland)
Performance in which a soprano rebels against the outdated female stories of classic lieder repertoire (Schumann’s “Frauenliebe und -leben”) and starts to sing famous baritone arias (“Largo al factotum”, “Vedrò, mentr'io sospiro” and “Deh vieni alla finestra”) to her own pleasure and amusement.
Piano: Laura Heikkilä
Soprano: Elvire Beekhuizen
Photos: Roosa-Maria Kauppila
Der streit zwischen phoebus und pan by j.s. bach
(2023 )
semi-staged
Production with Apollo Ensemble during Festival Via Musica in Flevoland (The Netherlands)
Comedy staging with the narrative frame of a talent show.
Musical leader: David Rabinovich
Cast: Elvire Beekhuizen, Rosina Fabius, Camilo Delgado Diaz, Francis Ng, Mattijs van der Woerd, Jasper Schweppe
Photos: Szymon Komarnicki
GIULIO CESARE by G.F. Händel (2022)
Production with participants of Handel Opera Academy in Tarnowskie Góry.
Classical staging with a narrative frame of taking place in a destroyed theater.
Modern storytelling with a psychological approach towards acting.
Conductor: Enrique Gómez-Cabrero Fernández
Set and costume designer: Zuzanna Ostropolska-Nalewaja
Dramaturg: Ewa Mikuła
Light director: Mikołaj Wolniewski
Cast: Julia Grizzell, Maja Sremec, Paulina Sá Machado, Valeria Farrera, Volodymyr Ivan Lymar, Dagny von Mering, Denise Michelle Reynoard, Magdalena Pikuła, Maite Cathérine de Wit, Grzegorz Zajączkowski, Darya Lukashyk
Photos: Kaja Gómez-Cabrero
Giove in Argo by A. Lotti (2019 and 2020)
Antonio Lotti’s forgotten opera found and produced by Ars Augusta.
Contemporary staging with baroque inspirations and elements.
Psychological and character based staging.
Set and costume designer: Jerzy Basiura
Light director: Klaudia Kasperska
Cast (2019): Radosław Pachołek, Nana Bugge Rasmussen,Elvire Beekhuizen, Aleksandra Hanus, Linsey Coppens, Mikus Abaronins, Petra Havrankova, Grzegorz Zajączkowski
Cast (2020):Eleni Ioannidou, Magdalena Pikuła, Elvire Beekhuizen, Johanna Reithmeier, Anne-Marie Tietze, Paweł Kowalewski, Wiktoria Oskroba, Grzegorz Zajączkowski
Photos: Kaja Gómez-Cabrero, Jerzy Basiura
The Superheroes (2019)
by S. Komarnicki
Comedy-drama about weak and vulnerable people, hiding themselves from the problems of real life in superhero clichés.
Comic book inspired projections.
8-bit retro computergame-like music.
Set and costume designer: Jerzy Basiura
Cast: Filip Bochenek, Szymon Grzybek, Ula Tylek
Photos: Andrzej Głuc
