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The Secret Life of Paintings from Poland

The Secret Life of Paintings from Poland

What did Vermeer’s Woman Reading a Letter learn from the correspondence? What is Rembrandt’s Night Watch talking about just before marching out? And who will catch the maiden’s slipper in Fragonard’s The Swing?

The Secret Life of Paintings is a unique combination of arias from the operas of Monteverdi, Handel and Vivaldi with the visual arts from the Baroque era. Fragments of such works as OrlandoAriodante or Alcina – ‘musical paintings’ as it were – are the setting for stories based on scenes immortalised on the canvases of old masters. The event is a co-production of the Polish National Opera and the Polish Royal Opera. The soloists of the Opera Academy of the Polish National Opera are accompanied by the Period Instruments Ensemble of the Polish Royal Opera Capella Regia Polona conducted by Krzysztof Garstka.  Streamed by Slippedisc, courtesy of OperaVision.

Sung in Italian.  Subtitles in Italian, Polish and English.

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