2019 / 2020 Events in Krakow

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October 1st, Tuesday: Concert The Lithuanian Post-Minimalism features Poland’s Spoldzielnia Muzyczna contemporary ensemble performing Dominykas Digimas’s Reflections for ensemble and tape (2014), Egidija Medeksait’s Nigamagamini for flute and tape (2014). Antanas Kucinskas’s Loop in D-minor for violin, cello, and piano (2004), Juste Janulyte’s Psalms for electric guitar and tape (2018), Andrius Arutiunian’s Armen fot tape (2017-18), Rita Maciliunait’s Koan for clatrinet, viola, and piano (2012), Justina Repeckaite’s Tapisserie for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello (2015), Lina Lapelyte’s Tide for violin, organ, and tape (2009), and Ruta Vitkauskaite’s Then at one point I did not for flute, cello, and percussion (2011) in Cricoteka museum, 2 Nadwislanska street, at 7 pm (admission 50 PLN).
Concert ACCORDRONE LT Poland’s accordionists Rafal Luc and Maciej Frackiewicz playing Katarzyna Glowicka new piece for two accordions (2019), Egidija Medekeaite’s Sattva for accordion and tape (2018), Antanas Jasenka’s Accordrone for accordion and tape (2018), and Julius Eastman’s Evil Nigger (1979) in the Malopolski Ogrod Sztuki culture centre, 12 Rajska street, at 9:30 pm (admission 50 PLN).
October 2nd, Wednesday: Poland’s Hashtag Ensemble performs Morton Feldman’s Why Patterns? (1978) and Lucia Dlugoszewski’s Openings of the Eye (1951) in Cricoteka museum, 2 Nadwislanska street, at 7 pm (admission 50 PLN).
USA’s ICE International Contemporary Ensemble performs Nicole Mitchell’s Inescapable Spiral (2017), Okkyung Lee’s ha yeom (2016). Wojtek Blecharz’s new piece (2019), Anthony Pateras’s Broken Then Fixed Then Broken (2009), Pauline Oliveros’s Buffalo Jam (1982), Ashley Fure’s Therefore I Was (2012), and Mario Diaz de Leon’s Gated Eclipse (2006) in the Malopolski Ogrod Sztuki culture centre, 12 Rajska street, at 9:30 pm (admission 50 PLN).
October 3rd, Thursday: Concert Studie in Form features Germany’s musician Reinhold Friedl playing prepared piano and performing Roman Haubenstock-Ramati’s Catch 2 (2 versions, 1968), Witold Szalonek’s Mutanza (1968), Laurie Schwartz’s The Spaces? (1996), Mario Bertoncini’s An American Dream (1974), Lucia Dlugoszewski’s piece for timbre piano 20, and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati’s Studie in Form (1954) in Cricoteka museum, 2 Nadwislanska street, at 7 pm (free admission).
Concert Other People features Poland’s vocalist Artur Zagajewski and Male Instrumenty ensemble performing Paweł Romanczuk’s new piece (2019) and Artur Zagajewski’s new composition (2019) in the Malopolski Ogrod Sztuki culture centre, 12 Rajska street, at 9:30 pm (admission 50 PLN).
October 4th, Friday: USA’s tenor Erin Caves, Poland’s violinist Aleksandra Kuls, Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir, and Boys Choir with conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe render Ambroise Thomas’s Raymond opera overture, Mieczyslaw Karlowicz’s violin concerto in A major op. 8, and Hector Berlioz’s Te Deum in Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury culture centre, 232 al. Jana Pawla II, at 7:30 pm.
Krakow Opera Company produces Ruggiero Leoncavallo's 'Pagliacci' and Giacomo Puccini's 'Gianni Schicchi' in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 100 PLN).
Concert HOUSE OF LOW CULTURE features London’s musician Anji Cheung performing her Seven are the Veils (2018) and Decan of Heart's Blood (2018) for voice and electronic instruments, followed by the USA’s Heather Leigh playing her Throne (2018) for electric Hawaiian guitar, followed by the USA’s Mick Barr playing his Plvence Abrost R Msitloun (2019) for electric guitar, followed by the USA’s Aaron Turner playing his Repression’s Blossom (2019) and Interminable Conniption (2019) for electric guitar and electronic instruments in the Malopolski Ogrod Sztuki culture centre, 12 Rajska street, at 7 pm (admission 50 PLN).
Germany’s pop and crossover violinist David Garrett and His Band perform in Tauron Arena Krakow, 7 Lema street, at 8 pm (tickets from 190 PLN).
October 5th, Saturday: USA’s tenor Erin Caves, Poland’s violinist Aleksandra Kuls, Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir, and Boys Choir with conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe render Ambroise Thomas’s Raymond opera overture, Mieczyslaw Karlowicz’s violin concerto in A major op. 8, and Hector Berlioz’s Te Deum in Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury culture centre, 232 al. Jana Pawla II, at 6:30 pm.
Concert of music by Krakow’s composer Zbigniew Preisner takes place in in Tauron Arena Krakow, 7 Lema street, at 8 pm (tickets from 225 PLN).
October 6th, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company produces Ruggiero Leoncavallo's 'Pagliacci' and Giacomo Puccini's 'Gianni Schicchi' in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 100 PLN).
October 11th, Friday: Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Marek Pijarowski plus French horn players Pawel Dziewonski, Marek Gumiela, Grzegorz Mondry, and Anna Mondry render Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischutz opera overture, Robert Schumann’s Konzertstuck for four horns and orchestra op. 86, and Johannes Brahms’s symphony no. 3 in Kosciol sw. Katarzyny church, 7 Augustianska street and Skaleczna street, at 7:30 pm.
Krakow Opera Company produces Giacomo Puccini's 'Tosca' in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
October 12th, Saturday: Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Marek Pijarowski plus French horn players Pawel Dziewonski, Marek Gumiela, Grzegorz Mondry, and Anna Mondry render Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischutz opera overture, Robert Schumann’s Konzertstuck for four horns and orchestra op. 86, and Johannes Brahms’s symphony no. 3 in Kosciol sw. Katarzyny church, 7 Augustianska street and Skaleczna street, at 7:30 pm.
October 13th, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company produces Giacomo Puccini's 'Tosca' in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
October 19th, Saturday: Krakow Opera Company produces Fred Apke's “Teresica - una passion” show based on the Spanish Baroque music in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 35 PLN).
October 20th, Sunday: Poland’s LUTOSLAWSKI QUARTET render Stanislaw Moniuszko’s string quartet no. 2 in F major, Witold Lutoslawsk’s string quartet, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s string quartet no. 8 in C minor op. 110 in the Krakow National Museum’s Gmach Glowny main building, 3 Maja street and Adama Mickiewicza avenue, at 7:30 pm.
Krakow Opera Company produces Fred Apke's “Teresica - una passion” show based on the Spanish Baroque music in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 35 PLN).
October 21st, Monday: Poland’s flutist Ania Karpowicz and pianist Marek Bracha render Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s Five Pieces, Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s Sonatina for flute and piano, and Aaron Copland’s Duet for flute and piano in the Krakow National Museum’s Gmach Glowny main building, 3 Maja street and Adama Mickiewicza avenue, at 7:30 pm.
October 22nd, Tuesday: Poland’s ZAREBSKI PIANO DUO of pianists Piotr Rozanski and Grzegorz Mania render Antonin Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances op. 46 nos. 2 and 4, Ignacy Jan Paderewski’s Album tatrzanskie op. 12 nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, Emil Wojtacki’s Szkice przestrzeni – three etudes, Wladyslaw Zelenski’s Trauerklange op. 36 and Cracovienne and Masovienne op. 47, and Johannes Brahms’s Hungarian Dances nos. 4 and 6 in the Krakow National Museum’s Gmach Glowny main building, 3 Maja street and Adama Mickiewicza avenue, at 7:30 pm.
October 23rd, Wednesday: Slovenia’s violinist Volodja Balzalorsky and The Netherlands’ pianist Peter Caelen render Leos Janacek’s Sonata for violin and piano JW 7 no. 7, Antoni Dvorak’s Sonatina in G major op. 100, Aaron Alter’s For Fred, Ludomir Rozycki’s 2 Melodie op. 5, and Johannes Brahms’s Sonata no. 3 in D minor op. 108 in the Krakow National Museum’s Gmach Glowny main building, 3 Maja street and Adama Mickiewicza avenue, at 7:30 pm.
October 24th, Thursday: Poland’s soprano Joanna Freszel and pianist Bartlomiej Kominek perform songs by Frederic Chopin, Stanislaw Moniuszko, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Marta Ptaszynska, Karol Szymanowski, Alberto Ginastera, Grazyna Bacewicz, and Slawomir Zamuszko in the Krakow National Museum’s Gmach Glowny main building, 3 Maja street and Adama Mickiewicza avenue, at 7:30 pm.
October 25th, Friday: Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir with conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe  plus soprano Katarzyna Guran, alto Joanna Swieszek, tenor Bartlomiej Chorazy, and baritone Maciej Druzkowski render Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem in D minor KV 626 in Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury culture centre, 232 al. Jana Pawla II, at 7:30 pm.
Krakow Opera Company produces Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s “A Midsummer Night's Dream” (premiere) in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 140 PLN).
October 26th, Saturday: Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir with conductor Charles Olivieri-Munroe plus soprano Katarzyna Guran, alto Joanna Swieszek, tenor Bartlomiej Chorazy, and baritone Maciej Druzkowski render Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem in D minor KV 626 in Nowohuckie Centrum Kultury culture centre, 232 al. Jana Pawla II, at 6 pm.
Krakow Opera Company produces Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s “A Midsummer Night's Dream” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
October 27th, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company produces Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s “A Midsummer Night's Dream” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
October 28th, Monday: Italy’s KaleiDuo of flutist Tito Ciccarese and accordionist Gianni Fassetta render Ennio Morricone’s Gabriel’s Oboe, Fiorenzo Carpi’s  Adventures of Pinocchio, Nicola Piovani’s La vita a bella, Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata prelude, Stefano Nanni’s Alla Turca, Marco Betta’s fragments and nocturne arias from La Corona di Tombacco, Gabriel Faure’s Apres un reve op. 7, Wilhelm Popp’s Russisches Zigeunerlied op. 462, Astor Piazzolla’s Milonga sin palabras, Tristango, Libertango, and Richard Galliano’s Tango pour Claude in the Krakow National Museum’s Gmach Glowny main building, 3 Maja street and Adama Mickiewicza avenue, at 7:30 pm.

Entertainment events in Krakow planned for November 2019.

November 2nd, Saturday: Krakow Opera Company produces Giacomo Puccini’s “La boheme” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
November 3rd, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company produces Giacomo Puccini’s “La boheme” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
November 9th, Saturday: Krakow Opera Company produces Giacomo Puccini’s “La boheme” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
November 11th, Monday, Independence Day: Ireland’s dance and music show Lord of the Dance takes place in in Tauron Arena Krakow, 7 Lema street, at 6 pm (tickets from 125 PLN).
November 15th, Friday: Krakow Opera Company produces Stanislaw Moniuszko’s “The Haunted Manor” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
November 17th, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company produces Stanislaw Moniuszko’s “The Haunted Manor” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
November 22nd, Friday: Krakow Opera Company produces Gioacchino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 11 am (admission 40 PLN).
November 23rd, Saturday: Krakow Opera Company produces Gioacchino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
Poland’s veteran pop rock band, Lady Pank, performs in in Tauron Arena Krakow, 7 Lema street, at 6:30 pm (tickets from 69 PLN).
November 24th, Sunday: Krakow Opera Company produces Gioacchino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” in Opera House, 48 Lubicz street, at 6:30 pm (admission 120 PLN).
Italy’s veteran stellar pop duo of Al Bano and Romina Power sing in Tauron Arena Krakow, 7 Lema street, at 6 pm (tickets from 169 PLN).

Krakow events anticipated in December 2019.

December 3rd, Tuesday: UK’s famed hard rock band, Deep Purple, performs in Tauron Arena Krakow, Lema street, at 8 pm (tickets 370 PLN).
December 22nd, Sunday: Spain’s stellar tenor Placido Domingo performs with Krakow’s Sinfonietta Cracovia orchestra in Tauron Arena Krakow, 7 Lema street, at 8 pm (tickets from 179 PLN to 679 PLN).

Krakow events in year 2020.

Krakow events in January 2019.

January 23rd, Thursday: Canada’s Cirque du Soleil performs its ice skating show Crystal in Tauron Arena Krakow, Lema street at 7 pm (tickets from 120 PLN).
January 24th, Friday: Canada’s Cirque du Soleil performs its ice skating show Crystal in Tauron Arena Krakow, Lema street at 7 pm (tickets from 120 PLN).
January 25th, Saturday: Canada’s Cirque du Soleil performs its ice skating show Crystal in Tauron Arena Krakow, Lema street at noon, at 4 pm and again at 8 pm (tickets from 120 PLN).
January 26th, Sunday: Canada’s Cirque du Soleil performs its ice skating show Crystal in Tauron Arena Krakow, Lema street at 1 pm and again at 5 pm (tickets from 120 PLN).

Entertainment events in Krakow expected in February 2020.

February 14th, Friday: Ireland’s stellar pop folk band, The Kelly Family, perform in in Tauron Arena Krakow, 7 Lema street, at 8 pm (tickets from 129 PLN).

Krakow events scheduled for March 2020.

March 21st, Saturday: Concert of Wojciech Kilar’s cinematic music takes place in in Tauron Arena Krakow, 7 Lema street, at 8 pm.