MIRROR - opera from Rafal Gorzycki - premiere performance

We invite you for a fairy tale... a fairy tale telling the story of a man, a scientist, who discovers a moving truth about the nature of the universe. In doing so, he discovers a shocking truth about himself....

Thanks to funds from the ‘KPO for Culture’ programme, funds from the ‘Bydgoszcz City of Music UNESCO’ programme programme, and thanks to cooperation with the F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz, we invite you to the premiere performance of a transgressive opera work by Bydgoszcz composer Rafał Gorzycki, co-created by the most outstanding artists in the fields of literature, theatre, visual arts, opera, classical and contemporary music.

Małgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk – libretto

Rafał Gorzycki – music 

Kamila Siwińska – direction, video

Katarzyna Tretyn – set design

Joanna Freszel – Master/soprano

Dorota Nowak – Anna/soprano

Witold Szulc – Boy/actor

Paweł Piotrowski – Old Woman/baritone

New Music Orchestra

Szymona Bywalec – conductor

Chamber Choir of the F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz

Magdalena Filipska – choir leader and preparer

Marek Malinowski – electric guitar

Mikołaj Sarad – saxophones

Rafał Gorzycki – electronics

Kamil Kęska – spatial sound direction

Opera Hall of the New Campus of the F. Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz/Poland

ul. Prof. Godziszewskiego 1

11 November 2025, 8 p.m.

Free admission

Free tickets only to reserve on  info@artmintaka.com

Limited number of seats available

Live broadcast of the event on artmintaka.com and on the Art Mintaka Foundation's YouTube channel.

The project is financed by the National Culture Programme operated by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

The LUSTRO opera platform is part of The Platform of Newly Created Transgressive Sounds (TPONTS) project, included in the City of Bydgoszcz's application to join the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.

The beneficiaries of TPONTS are: the Polish Chamber Music Foundation – ART MINTAKA, the MÓZG Foundation and the WET MUSIC Foundation.

The project is financed by the Bydgoszcz City of Music UNESCO programme. The project is financed by the National Programme for Culture operated by the National Institute of Music and Dance.

Details: artmintaka.com/opera