Forest Opera
Location | Sopot, Poland |
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Coordinates | 54°26′41″N 18°32′40″E / 54.4448°N 18.5444°E |
Capacity | 5,047 |
Construction | |
Opened | July 1909 |
Renovated | 2009–2012 |
The Forest Opera (Polish: Opera Leśna, German: Waldoper) is an open-air amphitheatre located in Sopot, Poland, with a capacity of 5047 seats, the orchestra pit can contain up to 110 musicians.
History
Built in 1909 (
After World War II the
Each year, starting from 1964 (only interrupted during the
The Forest Opera hosted the 1991 edition of the Miss Polski beauty pageant on 19 July 1991, and was also the venue of Whitney Houston's only live concert in Poland, held on 22 August 1999 as part of her My Love Is Your Love World Tour.[1][2] On 28 June 2001, the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under James Levine gave a concert at the Forest Opera.
An attempt was made to reactivate the Sopot Wagner Festival on the 100th anniversary of the Forest Opera's creation (20 July 2009), with the special event of a single concert performance of Das Rheingold, conducted by Jan Latham-Konig – for the first time since the end of the 1930s. The announced intention of the organizers is staging the remaining parts of Der Ring des Nibelungen in Sopot (including some of them in the Forest Opera) within the next few years.[3]
From September 2009 until June 2012 Sopot Forest Opera underwent extensive renovation and modernization.
Performances in Zoppot Festspiele
- 1914: Der Freischütz
- 1921: Fidelio
- 1922: Siegfried
- 1924: Die Walküre
- 1925: Tannhäuser
- 1926: Lohengrin
- 1927: Götterdämmerung
- 1928: Parsifal
- 1929: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- 1931: Der Ring des Nibelungen (the cycle without Das Rheingold)
- 1932: Lohengrin
- 1933: Tannhäuser
- 1934: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Die Walküre
- 1935: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Rienzi
- 1936: Parsifal and Rienzi
- 1937: Parsifal and Lohengrin
- 1938: Lohengrin and Der Ring des Nibelungen (whole cycle)
- 1939: Tannhäuser and Der Ring des Nibelungen (whole cycle)
- 1940: Tannhäuser and Der fliegende Holländer
- 1941: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- 1942: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Siegfried
- 1944: Siegfried
Sources
The Bayreuth of the North by Einhard Luther, in Opera (Autumn, 1966), 7.
References
- ^ "Czy to pamiętasz? Whitney Houston w Sopocie. Występ, o którym mówiła cała Polska". 25 September 2015.
- ^ "20 lat od występu Whitney Houston w Sopocie".
- ^ ""Złoto Renu" Wagnera w Operze Leśnej". Dziennik Bałtycki. 21 July 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2022.