Weekend with culture: a musical journey through the region
The Marshal’s cultural institutions invite to events that will be of interest above all to music lovers. The XXXI Bydgoszcz Opera Festival will be crowned by two operas by Giuseppe Verdi, a concert ‘Missa pro pace’ by Wojciech Kilar at the Pomeranian Philharmonic, and three days with jazz at the Lubostroń Palace.
During the ongoing XXXI Bydgoszcz Opera Festival, ‘Luisa Miller. Intrigue and Love’ directed by Frédéric Roels will be presented by the Silesian Opera from Bytom. Verdi’s work, based on Friedrich Schiller’s drama ‘Intrigue and Love’, had its Polish premiere in November 2024 and will be presented on the stage of Opera Nova on Friday (9 May). In the Sunday (11 May) finale of the festival, audiences will see Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ performed by artists from the Kyiv National Opera.
To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Symphony Orchestra of the Pomeranian Philharmonic and the Academic Choir of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, conducted by Raoul Grüneis, will perform Wojciech Kilar’s ‘Missa pro pace’. Also performing on Friday (9 May) will be Alessia Schumacher (soprano), Merlind Constanze Pohl (alto), Rafał Bartmiński (tenor) and Simon Robinson (bass). Before the concert, a meeting to promote the third volume of the publication ‘Painting – from the collection of the Pomeranian Philharmonic’.
The three-day meeting with jazz is invited to the Lubostroñ Palace. The opening combined with a photographic vernissage and a screening of the film ‘Jazz Outsider’ will take place on Friday (9 May), on Saturday (10 May) there will be a cruise along the Notec Canal from Labiszyn to Lubostroń with the Brass Band Rakovnik and a parade and concert of jazz bands from Poland and the Czech Republic, and on Sunday (11 May) the Little Jazz Academy for the youngest will be conducted by Jakub Marszałek. Admission to all events will be free.
The 32nd Probaltica Festival of Music of the Baltic Countries, co-financed by the regional government and under the honorary patronage of Marshal Piotr Całbecki, continues until Sunday (18 May). Festival programme.
The regional government runs 17 cultural institutions that offer a wide repertoire of cultural proposals.
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz
- the Gallery and Centre for Children’s Artistic Creation in Toruń
- Wozownia (Coach House) Art Gallery in Toruń
- Museum of Archaeology in Biskupin
- Prof. Maria Znamierowska-Prüfferowa Ethnographic Museum in Toruń
- Museum of Kujawska and Dobrzyńska Lands in Włocławek
- NOVA’ Opera House in Bydgoszcz
- Chopin Centre in Szafarnia
- Lubostroń Palace in Lubostron
- Wilam Horzyca Theatre in Toruń
- Regional Public Library and Copernicus Library in Toruń
- Witold Bełza Voivodeship and Municipal Public Library in Bydgoszcz
- Regional Centre for Cultural Animation in Toruń
- Kujawsko-Pomorskie Cultural Centre in Bydgoszcz
- Kujawsko-Pomorski Musical Theatre in Toruń
- Kujawsko-Pomorskie Heritage Center in Toruń
- Kujawsko-Pomorskie Centre for Education and Innovation in Toruń
Beata Krzemińska
Spokesperson for the Marshal’s Office
8 May 2025