|
no flash player
Experience the quality of Warsaw hotels - find the accommodation
 
See what's going on in Warsaw during your stay in the city.
If you'd like to find some of Warsaw's hidden gems, we can recommend a few very interesting places.
|
|
Transportation & Map
 
Weather in Warsaw
brought to you by BBC WEATHER
See Warsaw in the photo
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher, a chamber opera based on the famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe, has an intriguing plot full of obliqueness and mystery, the climate of a hypnotic dream, impending destruction and doom. The composer’s trance music, wellknown from his film soundtracks (Koyaanisquatsi, Powaqqatsi, Mishima), seemingly monotonous, obsessive, and ignoring any dramatic aspects, turns out to provide surprisingly good material for the opera stage. Added to this are some good ideas from the director, who rejects the gothic setting, moves the action to an “ordinary” modern-day home, and focuses on the characters’ neurotic psyche, making the whole story even more gripping and mysterious. Barbara Wysocka received a Polityka Passport award for directing The Fall of the House of Usher. The production became a sensation of the Territories cycle in which the TW-PNO presents operas and ballets relatively unknown in Poland in the most interesting and innovative formats.
