Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Georg Friedrich Händel · libretto by Benedetto Pamphili
Handel's first oratorio given a staged realisation for the Polish Royal Opera, with the period-instrument Capella Regia Polona and a cast of twelve — a contemporary frame rather than an illusionistic reconstruction. Taken to the 32nd Bydgoszcz Opera Festival as a guest production in 2026.
About the production
Handel wrote his first oratorio in Rome in 1707, to a libretto by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili: an allegory in which Beauty is argued over by Pleasure, Time and Disillusion. Raźniak stages it rather than presenting it in concert, and places the argument in the convention of a photographic studio.
Announcing the premiere he spoke of giving up illusionistic reconstruction in favour of a dialogue with history. Krzysztof Garstka conducts Capella Regia Polona on period instruments; the production was invited to the 32nd Bydgoszcz Opera Festival in the following season.
- Premiere
- 4 April 2025
- Venue
- Polish Royal Opera, Warsaw
- Guest performance
- 30 April 2026, 32nd Bydgoszcz Opera Festival
Creative team
- Music direction
- Krzysztof Garstka
- Set & costumes
- Barbara Guzik
- Light
- Ada Bystrzycka
- Video
- Wojtek Kapela
- Ensemble
- Capella Regia Polona
- Cast
- Iwona Lubowicz, Aneta Łukaszewicz, Anna Radziejewska, Sylwester Smulczyński, Julia Pliś, Justyna Rapacz, Jakub Foltak, Aleksander Rewiński, Patrycja Grzywińska, Joanna Lichorowicz-Greś, Vova Makovskyi, Wojciech Wereśniak
Photographs · Karpati & Zarewicz
Gallery
Critical reception
Press
„…everything in the performance cohered into an exposition of its main themes: the loss of control and the blurring of truth.”