Classical music (23)

Jazz at the Academy

Jazz is in constant bloom in Kraków, no matter if it’s spring, summer or even winter. The Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music has its share in this phenomenon – a diminished...

Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Kraków, ul. św. Tomasza 43

Kraków Philharmonic University Concerts

For more than 20 years, the musical meetings organised by the Kraków Philharmonic at the Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University have been enjoying an unfading popularity thanks to...

Collegium Novum UJ, ul. Gołębia 24

The Bat (Kraków Opera)

The translation of Die Fledermaus  ( The Bat ) by the poet Julian Tuwim inspired the show’s director and choreographer, Janusz Józefowicz, to create a light-hearted,...

Kraków Opera, ul. Lubicz 48

Kraków Philharmonic Oratorio Concert

The Orchestra and Choirs of the Kraków Philharmonic under the baton of  Łukasz Borowicz  reach for true classics. Carmina Burana , the stage cantata performed for the first...

Kraków Philharmonic Hall, ul. Zwierzyniecka 1

Sinfonietta Cracovia: New Year's concert

In The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives, the trumpet persistently returns with its question and the answer is (not) given by the flutes. In John Adams’ minimalist, trance-like Shaker...

Kraków Philharmonic Hall, ul. Zwierzyniecka 1

Johann Strauss Orchestra: The King of Waltz at Tauron Arena Kraków

TAURON Arena Kraków, ul. Lema 7

Organ Mornings at the Kraków Philharmonic

How long does it take to master playing the organ? What is the lowest sound you can make on them? And why is the organ provided with a mirror? These and a whole host of other questions are asked...

Kraków Philharmonic Hall, ul. Zwierzyniecka 1

Symmetries – 5th String Quartet Festival

Allegedly, the impetus came from Baron Fürnberg, who was looking for entertainment with music in his remote Weinzierl Castle and commissioned a young composer, Joseph Haydn, to write a piece...

Florianka Recital Hall, ul. Basztowa 8

Kraków Philharmonic Symphony Concert

A symphony penned by an 18th-century Warsaw composer and printer, kapellmeister of St John Collegiate Church; Viennese Romanticism in the songs by Franz Schubert (sung by tenor Patrick Kabongo);...

Kraków Philharmonic Hall, ul. Zwierzyniecka 1

La Bohème (Kraków Opera)

On 3 February 1896, two days after the premiere at Teatro Regio in Turin, the Roman newspaper “La Stampa” reported, “Just like La bohème does not leave much impression in...

Kraków Opera, ul. Lubicz 48

Concerts at St Martin's

Concerts of early music in St Martin's Church, organised by the Polish Bach Society, are held once a month – on the last Sunday of the month. The performers playng at St Martin's are renowned artists as well as outstanding students of the Academy of Music in Kraków.

St Martin's Evangelical Church, ul. Grodzka 58

Capella Cracoviensis: Weihnachtsoratorium

There were probably snowdrifts on the streets (no one heard of snowploughs back then!) and the icy wind was reaching every corner of the unheated churches. Maybe so, but I still envy those citizens...

Kraków Philharmonic Hall, ul. Zwierzyniecka 1