Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
We have just started selling tickets for the new 2019/2020 season at the National Forum of Music. The year ahead of us is full of musical emotions and events that you cannot miss.
The world-famous artists will be on the conductor’s podium, including the Poles: Gabriel Chmura and Michał Nesterowicz, as well as Lawrence Foster, music director of Opéra de Marseille, from this season serving as artistic director of NOSPR Katowice. We will also host the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, the well-known Dresdner Kammerchor in Wrocław, the Orchestra and Chorus of the Grand Theatre in Poznań or the Szymanowski Quartet. The season will also be filled with performances by NFM ensembles together with soloists as well as regular and guest conductors – the 40th anniversary of the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra fills us with pride.
An unusual event will be the opera gala with Piotr Beczała, a Polish tenor celebrating triumphs at the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House and La Scala. Among the divas featured on the NFM stage, it is worth mentioning Małgorzata Walewska, loved by the audience, and the Swedish prima donna Lisa Larsson. The pianists: Elisabeth Leonskaja and Piotr Anderszewski will return to the NFM. Among the violinists there are Janusz Wawrowski, playing Poland’s only Stradivarius named ‘Polonia’, and the charismatic Hungarian virtuoso Roby Lakatos. We will again be graced by Daniel Stabrawa, concertmaster of the Berliner Philharmoniker, who this season will be a soloist in two concerts: chamber and symphonic. Bomsori Kim will also return, winner of the second prize at the last Wieniawski Competition – this time we will see her play with the German NDR Radiophilharmonie. There will also be another prize-winner of the same Wieniawski Competition: Richard Lin.
With great joy, we invite you this season for the long-awaited inauguration of the organ in the Main Hall, which will take place in the spring of 2020. An extraordinary event will also be the performance of the Seven Gates of Jerusalem under the baton of the composer Krzysztof Penderecki. A real treat for enthusiasts of great choral music will be two monumental works: Missa solemnis by Ludwig van Beethoven and Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The season also promises to be interesting for fans of symphonic music, as the repertoire includes four symphonies of the genius Beethoven, as well as works by such composers as Mahler, Rachmaninov, Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Mozart, Schönberg, Bruckner, Prokofiev and Richard Strauss. As always at the NFM, we can expect a lot of Polish music, including a concert inspired by the Tatras and a programme with works by Mieczysław Karłowicz. On the occasion of the Moniuszko Year celebrated in 2019, we have prepared for you a programme composed of Moniuszko’s songs and a concert performance of his opera Pariah. There will also be world premieres, including compositions by Paweł Mykietyn.
We invite you to events traditionally awaited by the audience: concert on Valentine's Day, Christmas carol singing, New Year's Eve concert, New Year's Gala, and in the Holy Week to Bach's St John Passion to be performed by Wrocław Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Polyharmonique.
Tickets for concerts in the 2019/2020 season are on sale at the NFM Box Office (Plac Wolności 1) and online.
See you at the NFM!