Not seen. Smialek (#2615) describes it as a title list of 262 works for stage,
radio, or television. Information given includes synopsis, duration, instrumen-
tation, and recordings. Indexes of composers and librettists and a chronology.- Michalowski, Kornel. Opery polskie: Katalog. Krakow: Polskie Wydawn.
Muzyczne, 1954. 277p. ML128 .O4 M5.
A list of about 250 Polish operas arranged by title, giving names of composers,
librettists, and premiere data. Chronology for 1778–1953. Also a list of operas
by non-Poles with Polish themes or settings. Bibliography of about 300 entries,
composer index.
Two articles by Józef KaQski in Musikbühne 76give some views of recent work: “Die
neue polnischer Oper” and “Opern polnischer Komponisten seit 1951.”
Individual Cities
Gdansk (GdaQsk)
2621.PaQstwowa Opera i Filharmonia Baltycka w GdaQsku.. .Gdansk: Morskie,- 162p. ML1740.8 .D3 P3.
Miscellaneous essays on concert, opera, and ballet activity. Gives list of operas
performed 1950–1970 with casts and illustrations. Names of artists in the
company are listed. No bibliography, no index.
Krakow (Kraków; Cracow)
2622.Reiss, Józef. Almanach muzyczny krakowa, 1780–1914.Krakow: Nakladem
To w. M iloPników Historii i Zabytków Krakowa, 1939. 2v. ML21 .R42.
Not seen. Described by Smialek (#2615) as a chronicle of operas and concerts,
with a list of concerts 1780–1914. Index of names.Poznan (PoznaQ:)
- Waldorff, Jerzy.Opera PoznaQska, 1919–1969. Poznan: Wydawn. PoznaQ-
skie, 1970. 219p. DK4750 .A2 B5 no.30.
A history of opera in the city, including biographies of leading figures.
Chronology of 412 performances; 111 photographs. No index.
Warsaw (Warszawa)
The capital is the main opera center. The Teatr Wielki (Grand Theater) was built in
1833, destroyed in 1939, and rebuilt and reopened in 1965.
- KaQski, Józef. Teatr Wielki w Warszawie.Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i
Filmowe, 1965. Not paged. ML1740.8 .W4 T44.
A picture book prepared for the reopening of the theater. Preface is in five lan-
guages, and captions are in French and Polish, but the main text is in Polish
only. List of the 230 operas and ballets performed in the Teatr Wielki and
in the earlier Warsaw theater from 1778 to 1965, with directors and chore-
ographers named (not the singers); also a list of administrators since 1821. No
index.
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