Madame Curie
Paris, November 2011
“The Paris audience gave a wholehearted ovation to the world premiere of Elżbieta Sikora’s opera
Madame Curie
... The audience filled the huge UNESCO auditorium, which was exceptionally turned into an opera stage that
night,” wrote the Polish Press Agency Paris correspondent. The biographical work about Maria Skłodowska-Curie,
the patron of the Year of Chemistry 2011, was commissioned by Baltic Opera. “It is an opera written in a very
contemporary language (electronic sounds are discreetly woven into the opera’s fabric) but in a sense traditional:
without a multiplicity of means or multimedia, it is supposed to impress simply with music... The heroine stays
on stage all the time, sharing her thoughts with strangers or just with the audience. Anna Mikołajczyk as Curie is
absolutely stunning, both as a voice and an actor,” wrote the weekly
Polityka
(Dorota Szwarcman, ‘Aria dla Marii’,
Polityka
, 22 November 2011)
participating
organisations
:
Baltic Opera; French Institute in Warsaw; Maria Skłodowska-Curie Museum in Warsaw; Permanent
Delegation of Poland to UNESCO; Polish Institute in Paris
From the performance of the opera
Madame Curie
. Pictured: Anna Mikołajczyk (Maria Skłodowska-Curie) and Paweł Skałuba (Pierre Curie)
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