15^th EDITION

THE TEATR WIELKI – POLISH NATIONAL OPERA
PAVILION IN FRONT OF THE TEATR WIELKI
CHURCH OF ART SOCIETIES

TICKETS ON SALE FROM 1 SEPTEMBER, 10 A.M.

It was in 17th-century Venice that tickets for opera events began to be sold to a wide audience, and in London and Paris in the 18th century that subscription concerts were first held. In centers such as Vienna and New York, orchestras and composers established philharmonic societies to make their art independent of the patronage of the wealthiest. Performers went beyond the walls of palaces and churches to secular concert halls, performing before a bourgeois audience with an ever-growing appetite.

It was in these cities that cultural energy resonated particularly strongly over the centuries, and its impact reached across continents. Spreading throughout the world, it influenced musical fashions and attracted talented composers to the metropolises – the epicenters of these vibrations.